“In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.” MenStoriesHumanityDarkHe ManRichesBrilliantRemarkableMidnightRagsDickensCarolsRags To Riches Author:Richard Lederer
“Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.” IfsMenShouldSaidFactsHomeNightDarkDealsViolenceHe ManMinistersAssaultAttackingCabinetsOutbreaksCurfew Author:Golda Meir
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.” MenBeliefBlackDarkRoomsHe ManCatBlindPhilosopherSuperstitionsTheologianBlind ManDark RoomBlack Cat Author:Laurence J. Peter
“Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.” MenWritingKindCharacterReadingBlackDarkInterestingHe ManEssentialsPaperDietsSeatsLatterSentimentsVegetablesDesksCoatsMixturesElderlySurveysOver The TopTrousersInteresting Characters Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.” MenWorldLightDarkWalksPathStreetsExampleHe ManHeroSaintBeing YourselfRole ModelsTorchesKindlesBlazingSetting An ExampleGreat Hero Author:Felix Adler
“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
“The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.” MenDarkTreeHe ManHealthyRottenDiseased Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.” MenI CanShowsSpiritDarkChanceHe ManAngelShiningBehalfAccompanyBragPedestrians Book:Winter Sunshine Source: Winter Sunshine
“Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.” MenMadeUniverseDarkSinBoysDarknessStreetsHe ManWindowHolesEveningKnockingNurseryNannies Author:Selwyn Hughes
“A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.” KnowsMenWorldDoeWholeLightEyeLife IsCan DoDarkHe ManFlowerBlindWhole LifeHolesDirtyPhenomenonFragranceLuminousBlind ManWatchfulness Author:Rajneesh
“Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.” MenLongStillsProblemHomeCoursesNamesDarkViolenceConditionsHe ManMarriedEuropeAcceptedCoreToleranceCirclesIslamicPrisonerIgnoredEpidemicsDominance Author:Alice Schwarzer