Ben Loory Quotes

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

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• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Work
  • Men
  • Woman

• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Beer

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• Men tend to be selfish.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Men
  • Selfish
  • Tend

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Everything

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Freedom

• There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Value

• Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Single
  • Bridge

• The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Dark
  • Perception

• Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Joy

• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Honor

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• A lot of people asked us why 'Journey' didn't let them play with friends or family, and obviously we had a reason - because that would have defeated the purpose of the game. But for a game to be truly be accessible to both children and adults and to men and women, it has to allow people to play with the ones they love.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • Animal

• I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Country
  • Upset
  • Vulgarity

• Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

  

  Ben Loory
  • Men
  • Dark
  • Shadow