Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

Storm Front

All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

Minaret

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

Master of the Senate

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

King of Thorns

The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.

The Licen Sepulcher

Some men are so willing to know their future, but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I actually told him to f**k himself. And that if he needed an ass to paddle, he should look in the mirror.

The Men with the Golden Cuffs

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

A tree has leaves like man has hair. Some men go winter in the summer, and other men, like me, like skiing on skin.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

The Setting Sun

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Selected Stories

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Three Men in a Boat

If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

Tehanu

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

The Passage of Power

Relationships program our minds as to what is and isn't an acceptable way to be treated.

Real Men Don't Text: A New Approach to Dating

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

Tom Brown at Oxford