Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Stealing Athena

it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

Stealing Athena

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at ...

Sceptical Essays

Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They're superior. Nuff said.

THE MAN FIX: The Stuff MEN SHOULD ADMIT And WOMEN SHOULD KNOW

Guys, you should always fight the urge to put your mouth in gear before taking your brain out of park.

THE MAN FIX: The Stuff MEN SHOULD ADMIT And WOMEN SHOULD KNOW

To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for “If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

Men of Valor: The Powerful Impact of a Righteous Man

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way o...

Novel with Cocaine

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Needful Things

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...

The Lady in the Lake

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

Lost Memory of Skin

I’m not playing at all. And f**k you, you’re trying to pull me into vagina talk. I won’t do it. I don’t have feelings. None at all. And I’m keeping it that way.

The Men with the Golden Cuffs

I can give you a girl’s perspective,” Eve offered with a smile. “I’m totally not into the girl-on-girl thing, but I know an attractive pussy when I see one.

The Men with the Golden Cuffs

The great aim of dating is to find that one soul who can stand at the bottom of your heart and touch the top of your mind

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith

Sweet Surrender

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men.

The Screwtape Letters: Also Includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"

Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

The Sin Collector: Thomas