Mistery Men Quotes

And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the recognized arts. She had never been in close contact with such people - there was no one to compare him with except those inspired eccentrics, musicians and poets whose image one knows as clearly and as vaguely as that of a Roman Emperor, an inquisitor or a comedy miser. Her memory contained a modest dimly lit gallery with a sequence of all the people who had in any way caught her fancy. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

What was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works. ~ Terry Pratchett

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you? Who will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an education bureaucrat, or you? Did a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end Jim Crow? No. In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient lies. They saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a single group and they said "not in my name." They didn't wait for the conventions of society to catch up to God's laws. They pushed. They pressed. And they were victorious. ~ Glenn Beck

Lee believed in the value of emulation, of learning from great men. As a soldier, he was a student of Napoleon. As an American, his hero was George Washington. And if we find Lee's perfection daunting, we should remember that Lee himself attempted - as indeed every sincere Christian attempts - 'the imitation of Christ. ~ H.W. Crocker III

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door? ~ Pearl Bailey

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death. ~ Milan Kundera

It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which corresponds to the male situation of experimental writer vs. writer), but also peculiarly more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a male experimental writer. She may, if young, get caught up in a "movement," like Djuna Barnes, like H.D., like Laura Riding, as someone's mistress, and then be forgotten, or if old, she maybe "admitted" into a group, under a label, but never quite as seriously considered as the men in that group. ~ Christine Brooke-Rose

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~ Lady Randolph Churchill

Aye, without a doubt, he adored her. He would protect her and love her until he took his last breath on God's beautiful earth. What more could a woman ask for in a man? Strength, honor, good looks were a welcome change to the men she'd known before the ~ Suzan Tisdale

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. ~ William Shakespeare

How many men have asked you to marry them?'

'Not a lot. Most had too strong an instinct for self-preservation. ~ Penelope Lively

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them. ~ Henry Ford

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles. ~ Frederic Bastiat

Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease. "What's up, Albert?" I ask. "A couple of columns over there got it in the neck." The cries continued. It is not men, they could not cry so terribly. "Wounded horses," says Kat. It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about? ~ Raymond Chandler

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well. ~ Alexander Pope

I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections. ~ David Bezmozgis

I collected men with interesting names. ~ Sylvia Plath

Men and women relate and understand things differently – period! ~ Art Hochberg

To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride. ~ Nathanael Greene

For where men have made the earth that is trodden underfoot, and have largely veiled the heavens themselves, it is but natural that they should think that they have made everything, and that it is they who rule it. ~ Robert Hugh Benson

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man. ~ James McCosh

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow.. ~ Cecil Lewis

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. ~ Rudyard Kipling

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. ~ Alfred Adler

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war. ~ Robert E.Lee

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth. ~ Davy Crockett

One can assess a prince's intelligence by looking at the men with whom he surrounds himself. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity. ~ Leo Strauss

When men are given the power to judge themselves, no guilt will ever be found ~ David Ellsworth

My panties were still on but he didn't let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex, making low, growling noises in his throat like a big cat purring with pleasure while it devoured its prey. ~ Emme Rollins

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. ~ T. S. Eliot

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not. ~ Alan Shepard

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him. ~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men ... ~ Albert Mohler

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them. ~ George Whitefield

I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury. ~ Anthony Trollope