Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

Rules for Old Men Waiting

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

Right Wing Women

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

Spurgeon's Sermons Vol. 1-10

What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

Monsters of Men

Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

The Midnight Mayor

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Les Misérables

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

The Little Prince

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

Last Man in Tower

...you can take comfort that despair is the worst thing he can spring on you. Things can appear to grow worse, but if you conquer despair, no deeper pit remains to trap you.

Of Men and of Angels

If it’s that jerk, he’s going to see my gun. ‘My body is a weapon.’ Dumb sh*t. I bet my gun can take out his body really damn quick.

The Men with the Golden Cuffs

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

Seeing Things at Night

The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Three Men in a Boat

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind