Quotes of: Men-and-women Keyword

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

A Dictionary of Thought

The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.

Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

The Gunslinger

One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

Good Poems for Hard Times

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

The Black Banner

A brick could be used to teach men how to dance, by learning balance. But a blanket could also teach men how to dance, by providing motivation to get good so they can get some under the covers later. 

Blanket

In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

Cloud Atlas

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

Ajaya: Roll of the Dice

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

All Quiet on the Western Front

There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it...

All Men of Genius

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

The Holy State and the Profane State

It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.

House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte.

Hawksmoor

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

The Killer Angels

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

To Kill a Mockingbird