A Quote by Wilfrid Sheed

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. — © Wilfrid Sheed
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.
I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.
In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.
When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.
In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
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