Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Georges Bernanos

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

Gioconda Belli

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Georg Simmel

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Havelock Ellis

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

Havelock Ellis

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.

Helen Fisher

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Harriet Harman

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Henry Lawson

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Haruki Murakami

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Ho Chi Minh

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Ho Chi Minh

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Horace Mann

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Hanna Rosin

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Hanna Rosin

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

Henry Rollins

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ice T