Hapless Men Quotes

It was then you'd have thought I'd been shot by a Taser, as paralyzed as I was at the sight of her - the perfect feminine form, the image hitting me with the velocity of a Slurpee-like brain-freeze, rendering me again the helpless, hapless male. Any trace of rationality or logic or even common sense that might've been there before is quickly abandoning ship, leaving Dickbrain at the helm and Lust navigating, ~ Jack Dancer

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. ~ Homer

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. ~ Joseph Joubert

I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything. ~ J. B. Smoove

By coming to dwell with us, Jesus was to reveal God both to men and to angels. He was the Word of God,
God's thought made audible. In ~ Ellen G. White

Most ballets are more interesting than most men. ~ Patricia McBride

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Lakhs of families in the country are deprived of energy connectivity. Fruits of development will not reach the common man until energy connectivity reaches every last household of the country. In the age of globalization, we have no option but to make a quantum leap in energy production and connectivity. ~ Narendra Modi

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. - Howard Roark ~ Ayn Rand

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women. ~ Fay Weldon

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. ~ Eve Ensler

The same thing is happening with the State. Call to mind what the State was at the end of the XVIIIth Century in all European nations. Quite a small affair! Early capitalism and its industrial organisation, in which the new, rationalised technique triumphs for the first time, had brought about a commencement of increase in society. A new social class appeared, greater in numbers and power than the pre-existing: the middle class. This astute middle class possessed one thing, above and before all: talent, practical talent. It knew how to organise and discipline, how to give continuity and consistency to its efforts. In the midst of it, as in an ocean, the "ship of State" sailed its hazardous course. The ship of State is a metaphor re-invented by the bourgeoisie, which felt itself oceanic, omnipotent, pregnant with storms. That ship was, as we said, a very small affair: it had hardly any soldiers, bureaucrats, or money. It had been built in the Middle Ages by a class of men very different from the bourgeois - the nobles, a class admirable for their courage, their gifts of leadership, their sense of responsibility. Without them the nations of Europe would not now be in existence. But with all those virtues of the heart, the nobles were, and always have been, lacking in virtues of the head. Of limited intelligence, sentimental, instinctive, intuitive - in a word, "irrational." Hence they were unable to develop any technique, a thing which demands rationalisation. They did not ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset

If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep. ~ Alfred Bester

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. ~ Tucker Max

I tell you, because military training is not publicly recognised by the state, you must not make that an excuse for being a whit less careful in attending to it yourself. For you may rest assured that there is no kind of struggle, apart from war, and no undertaking in which you will be worse off by keeping your body in better fettle.

"For in everything that men do the body is useful; and in all uses of the body it is of great importance to be in as high a state of physical efficiency as possible. Why, even in the process of thinking, in which the use of the body seems to be reduced to a minimum, it is matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to bad health.

"And because the body is in a bad condition, loss of memory, depression, discontent, insanity often assail the mind so violently as to drive whatever knowledge it contains clean out of it. But a sound and healthy body is a strong protection to a man, and at least there is no danger then of such a calamity happening to him through physical weakness: on the contrary, it is likely that his sound condition will serve to produce effects the opposite of those that arise from bad condition. And surely a man of sense would submit to anything to obtain the effects that are the opposite of those mentioned in my list.

"Besides, it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty t ~ Xenophon Memorabilia. 371BC Marchant Translation

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. ~ George Bishop Berkeley

I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd. ~ Colin Powell

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective. ~ Andrew Mellon

The official line is that, after the war, women couldn't wait to leave the offices and assembly lines and government agencies. But the real story was that the economy couldn't have men coming home without women going home, not unless it wanted a lot of unemployed vets. So the problem became unemployed women. "How you gonna keep us down on the farm after we've seen the world,"' she ad-libs to the old World War I tune. 'Enter the women's magazines, and cookbook publishers, and all these advertising agencies carrying on about the scourge of germs in the toilet bowl, and scuffs on the kitchen floor, and, my favorite, house B.O. Enter chicken hash that takes two and a half hours to prepare. I can just hear them sitting around the conference tables. 'That'll keep the gals out of trouble. ~ Ellen Feldman

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. ~ Frank Gehry

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife. ~ Clive James

You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wanna play rough, huh, I kill for fun! ~ Chris Tucker

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon. ~ Barry Goldwater

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success. ~ Warren Farrell

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. ~ Adelbert Von Chamisso

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. ~ Tim O'Brien

Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do. ~ Albert L. Gray

The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here - "

"Yet here they willingly and bravely choose to explore those aspects of their sexuality that are less than socially acceptable. ~ Tiffany Reisz

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places. ~ Robin Hobb

Although a million black men can be found in prisons and jails, public acknowledgment of the role of the criminal justice system in "disappearing" black men is surprisingly rare. ... Hundreds of thousands of black men are unable to be good fathers for their children, not because of a lack of commitment or desire but because they are warehoused in prisons, locked in cages. They did not walk out on their families voluntarily; they were taken away in handcuffs, often due to a massive federal program known as the War on Drugs. ~ Michelle Alexander

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. ~ Edna O'Brien

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. ~ Alex Katz

Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction. ~ Vantile Whitfield

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise. ~ Edmund Burke

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ~ Bertrand Russell

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. ~ Nikola Tesla

That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete , I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that. ~ Jack LaLanne

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. ~ Eero Saarinen

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. ~ Francis Bacon

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life. ~ Garrison Keillor

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ~ Marcus Aurelius

All of these men. Each one carrying a mystery that's not as interesting as he thinks. I don't want their mysteries. I want a life on an even level. ~ Joseph Fink

His mom frowned. "He wants me to get a boyfriend. Me. I'm almost sixty,"
Janelle nodded sagely. "It's never too late for true love."
"Bah. I just want to work. Money is better than men. I want a Hermès handbag. ~ Helen Hoang

Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born.
Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores. ~ Nora Roberts