What usually happens in the educational process is
that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed
and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature
they have lost their innate capabilities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts
filed away just below the conscious level.
- Joyce Brothers
Don't take it personally -
it's not usually about you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It really does matter when we tell even the slightest untruth.
Even something as well intentioned as
telling someone their ill-finished
hair style looks wonderful will backfire -
certainly karmically, and usually practically.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing
but in the midst of living.
- Anais Nin
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The being of our mothers is forever branded onto our own being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
She's been diagnosed as a paranoid hypochondriac.
Doctors think she may be faking.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
I don't advise a haircut, man.
All hairdressers are in the employment of the government.
Hairs are your aerials.
They pick up signals from the cosmos,
and transmit them directly into the brain.
This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
- the movie Withnail & I
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face.
- the movie Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
If God listened to the prayers of men,
all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste
the sky as well as the earth.
- Henry David Thoreau
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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