“The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.” MenLongPastHighestScientistFellowsRewardsDebtPrizeSolemnNobelNobel Prize Author:Edward Mills Purcell
“I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.” ThinkingKnowsMenMaySelfPastColorTraditionDistinctionAssuredNavyTurquoise Author:Jean Pigozzi
“If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.” IfsMenPastSpeakTenseVienna Author:Erich von Stroheim
“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.” KnowsMenYearsDoeHas BeensSometimesHandsPastBeautifulYoungGuyPayAttentionWonderfulExampleHeroPay AttentionGood ManThat GuyMy HeroWonderful LifeBeautiful Family Author:Dave Grohl
“Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.” MenLittlesPastLaborWeightBurdenAccomplishedTiedShiftingPsychoanalysisTherapeutic Book:Freud: The Mind of the Moralist Source: Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
“If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.” IfsMenLooksMadePastYoungAudienceUglyMade ItVampireYoung ManOld ManDecrepit Author:Daniel Cudmore
“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.” MenMadeStatesPastHeavenResultsHellPast LifeHeaven Or Hell Book:The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers Source: The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” MenMayPastSocietyDangerFutureAngerSlaveSaneRobotsMeaningless Life Author:Erich Fromm
“O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.” MenShouldMayHas BeensHomeEarthPainPastRememberSongVoiceRealizingAnimalCommonGoneBrotherCreaturesShould HaveShameCrueltyTheeSweetnessFellowshipLiving ThingsRuthlessDominionSweetness Of Life Author:Saint Basil
“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.” MenLooksSelfPastForgetAirBuildingSelf LoveImportanceEnvironmentalStaringCastlesCalamityNature BeautyBroodingVacantMusingsSelf-importanceCastles In The AirBuilding Castles In The Air Author:Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.” IfsThinkingMenShouldYearsSaidTwoDoneWould BeWantedPastMillionsMonthsDeserveConvincedConvincingMy PastTwo MonthsMachoWhy MeHairspray Author:John Travolta