Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] Your merciful God. He destroyed His own beloved, rather than let a mediocrity share in the smallest part of His glory. He killed Mozart and kept me alive to torture! 32 years of torture! 32 years of slowly watching ...

Amadeus

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Dracula

And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding the perfect love?

Flowers in the Attic

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Russell Hoban

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

Steven Pressfield

While all men want to be free, some want to be free to think what they want, and other men want to be free from the burden of free thought. These men seek freedom through slavery.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

Great men must go through great pain The strongest storms The hardest rain The toughest climbs The roughest terrain Great men must go through great pain

Shadows Over February

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty of life, beauty of humanity and the beauty of the world.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating

Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-wi...

Youth

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

Emmanuelle Beart

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities ...

Paul Johnson

I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the sha...

Bruce Forsyth

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

Dennis Prager

The Big Lebowski: Are you surprised at my tears, sir? The Dude: [Smoking a joint] Dude, fuckin' A! The Big Lebowski: Strong men also cry... strong men also cry.

The Big Lebowski

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fi...

The Hungering Dark