Men Quotes

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told me: 'Swear to God, man - the hooker gave the money back.'

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Men need to live and breathe women.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Men die but an idea does not.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.