“History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.” MenDifferentUseIndividualReadyEvolutionUnitsYardsticks Author:Gustav Stresemann
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.” MenWayWarSufferingLiteratureViolenceReadyDisappearPersecutionAbolishAbstention Author:Anatole France
“The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.” MenReadyMachinesHinduismVacationVoidPacsAnswering Machines Author:Frederick Lenz
“For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.” MenCountryAgeCommonPracticeReadyLaborTradeIllnessDecentCivilizedIdleAbsurdityAssuranceIndustrious Author:H. L. Mencken
“I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty.” PeopleMenKindWalksReadyOfficeAtmosphereStanding OutOverwhelmedJestOvalLooking Pretty Author:George W. Bush
“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.” PeopleIfsMenShouldKindTwoYoungPoliticalThreeRichMilitaryExampleSonReadyOughtOffersMembersAll KindsCouncilInfluentialMilitary ServiceRich FamilyThree Sons Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.” IfsMenWayMeanAbleDifficultClassFateSecurityParticularReadyNeededPeriodsStandardsClaimsFormerUniformsMinimumPrivilegedAvoidingAssuranceAdjustmentFree ManSecuredLapses Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.” PeopleMenWantHomeBodySpiritMotherFatherWaitingReadyNativeNative AmericanOur FatherBosomsDead ManNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaStay With MeGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative Wisdom Author:Wovoka
“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.” IfsMenMayLongDoeHas BeensSaidRememberFacesForgetDangerReadyCircumstancesLong TimeLaysProfitSentiments Author:Confucius
“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.” KnowsMenFeelingsActionMovingDiesFightingLeaderRolesSocietyMilitaryHe ManReadyShapesMountainCuresProphetPriestsMultitudesBusinessmanStatesmenBegetsReviveMove MountainsMilitary Leader Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.” IfsKnowsMenMadeUseMovingKnow HowFiguresReadyPainterOrators Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci