Men Quotes · Page 681

I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

— Cara Delevingne

There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.

— Pierce Brosnan

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

— Harry Belafonte

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

— John Cheever

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

— Steve Martin

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress…

— Theodor Adorno

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable…

— Donald Rumsfeld

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who…

— William James

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than…

— Erich Fromm

We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how…

— Rege-Jean Page

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made…

— Saint Augustine

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and…

— John Thune

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that…

— James F. Cooper

Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…

— Loren Eiseley

Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen…

— Seneca the Younger

Under Islamic precepts, men cannot enter the home of a woman who they don't know, and so they need the women in…

— Donald Trump

I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Men and the pursuit of them are strongly intertwined with my mental health. I would say, in my defensive defense, that the…

— Emma Forrest

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the…

— Bertrand Russell

As the Holy Trinity, our God is One Being, although Three Persons, so, likewise, we ourselves must be one. As our God…

— John of Kronstadt

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

— Walter Savage Landor

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

— Paul Samuelson

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

— J. G. Holland

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

— John Wesley

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

— Anonymous

Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!

— Joanna Krupa

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

— Andre Gide

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

— Hermann Goring

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

— Rumi

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

— Francis Beaumont

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care…

— Bram Stoker

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

— Albert Einstein

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

— Elmore Leonard

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

— Neil Gaiman