Top 1200 Mystery Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.

Men are men. I've been married to my husband for eight years now; we've been together for 16 years. And I've found that all I have to do is keep him fed and loved, and he's the happiest person. Men just want to be full, watching their basketball game and enjoy some hugs and kisses.

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

The men who use Bumble appreciate a confident woman, a woman who has a voice. A lot of men suffer from insecurity and fear rejection, too. Bumble removes that fear, as they don't have to make the first move, so it benefits both men and women.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

God shrouds himself in mystery so He can be found by true seekers.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.

During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.