Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Necessary Errors

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

No Country for Old Men

Did I just get psychically pimp-slapped by a little old lady?

Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

No Country for Old Men

Most people’ll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

No Country for Old Men

War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

November Snow

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

The Nelson Touch

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Neighborhood Watch

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

The Last Continent

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

A Lion Among Men

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Little Men

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

A Lion Among Men

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

A Lion Among Men

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

Last and First Men

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

A Lion Among Men

God created many races wilier than men. But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

Men at Arms

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut