In this post, you will find great Him Quotes from famous people, such as Abraham Lincoln, Zoltan Kodaly, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mahatma Gandhi, John Wayne. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
The woman who appeals to a man’s vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
I’m a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, ‘Oh my God, here’s another TV character trying to run for the presidency.’ They didn’t really take him seriously.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can’t understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I’m trying to be more like him as I get older.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Love him or hate him, no one has been able to figure out Donald Trump.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’
Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker‘s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.
You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him… the better off we all are.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
Would not the child’s heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn’t take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, ‘Well, look, I’m not going to treat you; we’re just not going to talk about it. It’s going to go away.’ You would look at him like he’s crazy. By not talking about racism, it’s not going to go away.
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there to throw me a ball to hit. The catcher was there to throw it back to him if he didn’t give me what I wanted the first time. And the umpire was lucky that he was close enough to watch.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
You can tell a lot about a man’s character by watching him win or lose money.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.
When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
We should always look upon ourselves as God’s servants, placed in God’s world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
When we meet, I’m interested and I’m curious about what he’s doing because he’s burning a number from a client. And I’m like, ‘Who is this?’ and my girlfriend‘s like, ‘That’s a drug dealer. Stay away from him.’
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by… worried… about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.
If a woman doesn’t chase a man a little, she doesn’t love him.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
I don’t think my life would be significantly poorer if I don’t impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit ‘the wild goose.’ And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
I always laugh and say I met God on the way up, and I got to know him on the way down. And so, as I’m crashing and losing everything, a lot of people run to God when they are struggling. And I was no exception.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!
Usually, a Brazilian doesn’t like to work hard in training, doesn’t like to stay focused. I trained a lot of Brazilian players. I had a problem with Ronaldo at Milan. It was not easy to get him fit! Ronaldo was 100kg but was the quickest in the 10 metre test!
Fortune sides with him who dares.
I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he’s always going to be there on time.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.
Dan Brown is a character from ‘Foucault’s Pendulum!’ I invented him. He shares my characters‘ fascinations – the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him ‘Doctor.’
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Half a psychiatrist‘s patients see him because they are married – the other half because they’re not.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run – sit still and ignore him and he’ll come purring at your feet.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
The problem is that when Argentina doesn’t play well – and the same is true of Barcelona – the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing – but the media expect him to always be the hero.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
I wouldn’t believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
There are two answers to every question – God’s answer and everybody else‘s – and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Letterman is very intimidating because he’s so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he’s a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.
Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
If a man can beat you, walk him.
I’ve got two older sisters who I’m very close to. And my son’s grown up with a big sense of family around him.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.
The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Every man has a wild beast within him.
I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, ‘Johnny, sounds like… ? Johnny, sounds like… ?’ I said out loud, ‘Sounds like Johnny can’t read.’ Teacher told me to leave the room.
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Being young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
No one warns young people to follow Adam’s example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this ‘being asleep‘ in the will of God.
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It’s simply a question of taste.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Circumstances don’t make a person; they reveal him or her.
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
When I played Robert Howard in ‘The Whole Wide World‘, I was struggling with it. There’s this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there’s constant shame: ‘Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?’
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life – just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I’m doing what I’m doing. I just thank Him. I don’t know how I deserve it, but it’s completely because of Him.
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn’t admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn’t just get a head start by being his father’s son – it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can’t for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
I’m thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I’m talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It’s just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that’s brought me closer to Him.
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he’s a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn’t speak to him for 10 years.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you’re looking at him. Elvis isn’t dead; he just changed color.
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of ‘Les Miserables,’ in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not – and was not interested in – telling a lie.
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don’t know if there’s an obvious business model. I don’t think there’s a competitive, sustainable advantage.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
I just want to be there for my husband. I don’t ever want him to think that he’s not getting everything at home – love, attention, encouragement, a meal. I just want him to feel the best he feels at home. I think that’s what a good wife is. Someone who is very attentive to her husband.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man’s use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.
He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
