#men

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#character #found #his #man #out

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#lot #maternal #me #men #nothing

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #center #different #different ways #drag

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#everybody #game #going #i #illness

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#fortunately #lot #really #smart #women

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#came #earth #first #foot #here

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#amount #been #direction #investments #most

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. ↗

— Will Arnett

#blades #brothers #chuck #development #few