Top 1200 Mystery Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.

A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

I think it's really important to acknowledge that gay men and straight men can be friends.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different - men and women live in different worlds. [...] At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

I want Americans to know that Guantánamo? happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.

Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; --When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.