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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
-- A. A. Gill -
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
-- A. A. Gill -
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
-- A. A. Gill -
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
-- A. B. Simpson -
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
-- A. B. Simpson -
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
-- A. B. Simpson -
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-- A. C. Benson -
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
-- A. C. Dixon -
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
-- A. D. Gordon -
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
-- A. E. Housman -
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
-- A. E. Housman -
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
-- A. E. Housman -
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
-- A. E. Housman -
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
-- A. E. Housman -
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
-- A. E. Housman -
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
-- A. E. Housman -
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
-- A. E. Housman -
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
-- A. E. Housman -
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
-- A. E. Housman -
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
-- A. E. Housman -
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
-- A. E. Housman -
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.
-- A. E. Housman -
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
-- A. E. Waite -
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
-- A. G. Gaston -
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler -
Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
-- A. J. Burnett -
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
-- A. J. Liebling -
A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
-- A. J. McLean -
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
-- A. P. Herbert -
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
-- A. P. Herbert -
My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.
-- A. P. Herbert -
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
-- A. P. Herbert -
aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
-- A. P. Herbert -
We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
-- A. R. Ammons -
A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
-- A. R. Gurney -
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
-- A. R. Rahman -
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
-- A. Scott Berg -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
-- A. Street -
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-- Aaron Copland -
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
-- Aaron Hill -
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
-- Aaron Hill -
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
-- Aaron Hill -
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
-- Aaron Hill -
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
-- Aaron Klug -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
-- Aaron Paul -
As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
-- Aaron Siskind -
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
-- Aaron Staton -
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
-- Aaron Tippin -
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
-- Abba Eban -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
-- Abba Eban -
Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
-- Abbas ibn Firnas -
There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don’t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won’t let you down again. I won’t hurt you. You don’t have to be alone anymore. I need you.
-- Abbi Glines -
Don’t become me. Don’t let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn’t. Be a man.
-- Abbi Glines -
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
-- Abbi Glines -
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.
-- Abbi Glines
