#men

I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them. ↗

— Nephi

#obedience #scripture #strength #men

You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are. ↗

— Don Draper

#mad-men #process #men

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#heal #smiles #men

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. ↗

— Simon Raven

#dusk #vampires #men

Más que de la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas. ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#relashionship #women-and-men #love

The primal sin of those like myself, mes amis, is that because we were once people who acted like beasts, we are forever cursed to be beasts who know they were once men. (“In The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise”) ↗

— Gemma Files

#werewolf #men

Some men are great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them. Isn't that so Jim? ↗

— Julia from Under the Dome

#men

Because we are the only women who are mothers of men." Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men. ↗

— Gorgos

#men

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability

Why did she want to stay in England? Because the history she was interested in had happened here, and buried deep beneath her analytical mind was a tumbled heap of Englishness in all its glory, or kings and queens, of Runnymede and Shakespeare's London, of hansom cabs and Sherlock Holmes and Watson rattling off into the fog with cries of 'The game's afoot,' of civil wars bestrewing the green land with blood, of spinning jennies and spotted pigs and Churchill and his country standing small and alone against the might of Nazi Germany. It was a mystery to her how this benighted land had produced so many great men and women, and ruled a quarter of the world and spread its language and law and democracy across the planet. ↗

— Elizabeth Aston

#history #men