“It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.” MenWantDoeBigsCommonHe ManProductsMassLuxuryShopsGoodsPresent DayBig BusinessCommon ManLuxury Goods Book:An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist Source: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist
“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.” MenGivingKindImportantWarBigsLyingHateSacrificeIdentityParticularHe ManReturnI HateMeetingsThemeUrgesBroadsAdoreEmergenciesAlarmsNational IdentityThings I Hate Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.” ThinkingMenNeedsShouldWellsSaidStillsHelpingShowsBigsGamesFocusPlayerTeamDogHe ManRight NowBasketballFaultsExcuseDamnContractsJealousRaysBasketball PlayerGood Basketball Author:Sam Cassell
“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.” MenYearsBigsEnergyCompanyTakenHe ManMen And WomenVoteCongressCampaignsDonationSubsidies Author:Bill McKibben
“It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.” KnowsMenLongDoeCountryDoneHomeBigsPresidentMistakeIssuesNew YorkHe ManOughtOfficeDrawsOrganizationSpotsChainsRangeBranchesExecutivesChicagoInstructionDesksSalaryDetroitPhiladelphiaGreat MistakesHeadquarters Author:B. C. Forbes
“If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenLittlesBookBigsReadingLeftPowerfulHe ManMost PowerfulBig QuestionsHooverPowerful ManJ Edgar Hoover Author:Dustin Lance Black
“He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.” MenWantGivingLooksWarCountryEnoughBigsHouseBitsWaterDarkBehindsHe ManBedBirdWindowSickHotDown AndCornersStreamsChairsEggsOld ManCoveredSaltLoadPotatoesBlanketSunnyBucketsRagsStinkOnionsHot WaterArmchairsMashed PotatoesBirds ChirpingBoers Book:Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
“I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.” MenBigsGamesWatchesHe ManSmartSticksFatsBeing SmartNurseryLicking Author:James Brown
“Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.” PeopleMenWorldLooksMayLittlesDoeEndsBigsTodayEasyBitsAnswersHe ManTomorrowLittle BitTonightWhy NotDiminishGlamourUpside DownBig QuestionsKilling YourselfLittle FaithBetter TomorrowHave A Little Faith Author:Adam Gopnik
“U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.” MenHas BeensWarBigsGamesPresidentPartyHe ManHillsServantHostTroopsFoundersHuntersBullsCivicsJuanFamily ManMooseTheodoreAmerican WarSpanish American War Author:Zig Ziglar
“There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.” MenRealBigsHappensHe ManDrinkHusbandWhiskeyBattered Author:George Carlin