Men Quote by Ian Fleming Download Open image “It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.” — Ian Fleming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Short Trouble World
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big -… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids,… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“But…history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share
“Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image