Quotes with men

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 2140.

  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Smiles The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Elvis Presley The army teaches boys to think like men.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Nelson Algren The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Naomi Wolf The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Ronald Laing The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Crudup The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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