Quotes Tagged "men"

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, I’ve always wished to make a god.

If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner. If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal. If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth.

Angels had fallen, men have sinned. It does not mean that God has failed.

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.

If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.

​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.