For Men Quotes
Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.
Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?
You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.
All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.