Giving Quote by Carson McCullers

“Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some…

— Carson McCullers

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a…

— Wallace Stegner

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly

— Bertrand Russell

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not…

— Thomas Merton

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

— Aristotle

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are…

— Albert Schweitzer

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Who knows why men do anything?

— Richard Adams

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

— Martha Graham

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

— Samuel Johnson