We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
To attract men I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.
In the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith but by the want of it.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors since all men are equal but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors for from the time of Jefferson onward the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards not downwards.
These men ask for just the same thing fairness and fairness only. This so far as in my power they and all others shall have.
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine' 'X Men' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.
All men are created equal it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings as men or women by our age our history our profession by the state of the world.
The world of men is dreaming it has gone mad in its sleep and a snake is strangling it but it can't wake up.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.
Most men love money and security more and creation and construction less as they get older.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Punishment is now unfashionable because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Genius is present in every age but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Great designers seldom make great advertising men because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others who are late to develop it just enables them to finish the job.
If so many men so many minds certainly so many hearts so many kinds of love.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Do not trust all men but trust men of worth; the former course is silly the latter a mark of prudence.
Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
If American men are obsessed with money American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain the women talk of loss and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
I would often find myself at the age of 21 at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Keywords : themselves, union
From the naturalistic point of view all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams it will transcend them.
I've dated men my age younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
If men were angels no government would be necessary.
Women prefer to talk in twos while men prefer to talk in threes.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.
When men and women agree it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament not by Jesus but by Paul that say women should not adorn themselves they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
In life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but very few men that are both great and good.
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.
One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Most men when they think they are thinking are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.
Not necessity not desire - no the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health food a place to live entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
To say that a work of art is good but incomprehensible to the majority of men is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
A lot of times women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship what men go through when they're not really dealing well.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty which is nice.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one go ahead get married.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude not looks. Most men think it's looks most women know otherwise.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men especially the most prominent one of the community the master's master the genius of the age.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
If the world were a logical place men would ride side saddle.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
I started dating older men and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men but that men will begin to think like computers.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least all healthy men.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
We should weep for men at their birth not at their death.
I would often find myself at the age of 21 at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
Friends are generally of the same sex for when men and women agree it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
The propensity to truck barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Charm in most men and nearly all women is a decoration.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
Women want mediocre men and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America but there is no party of principle.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
In politics women type the letters lick the stamps distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
I prefer younger men. In some ways they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
When bad men combine the good must associate; else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Republicans are men of narrow vision who are afraid of the future.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
They died hard those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.
Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act on their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.
There are no extraordinary men just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
There's three things men always talk about - women sports and cars.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.
When my mom ran for the Senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice 'Why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?'
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power.