Young Man Quotes - Page 23

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

Robert Breault

Life, Notebook, Son

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Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Barack Obama

Men, Domestic Violence, Needs

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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

Thomas Kuhn

Men, Break Through, Practice

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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

Eddy Merckx

Men, People, Facts

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You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.

David B. Haight

Silly, Men, Mind

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Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and has earned the Duty of God Award and is an Eagle Scout. Give me a young man who is a Seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me such a young man, and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life.

Ezra Taft Benson

Book, Men, Awards

Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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Within the sound of my voice are many young women, young men, and children. I plead with you to be worthy, to be steadfast, and to look forward with great anticipation to the day you will receive the ordinances and blessings of the temple.

David A. Bednar

Children, Blessing, Men

"Honorably Hold a Name and Standing". www.lds.org. May 2009.

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May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Believe, Feel Better, Men

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We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Men, Thinking, Two

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If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.

Lorin Stein

Sex, Attitude, Lying

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An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.

Diana Athill

Sex, Men, Interesting

Diana Athill (2009). “Somewhere Towards The End”, p.31, Granta Books

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Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.

Dave Attell

Funny, Beautiful, Sex

"Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sex, Men, Emotional

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A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Men, Air, Advice

Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Blue Flower”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

Thomas A. Edison

Life, Country, Work

"Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Thornton T. Munger

Life, Men, Use

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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Walter Damrosch

Writing, Men, Years

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When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man fully yielded to Him, and I said I wanted to be that man. But I can say today the world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully yielded to Him.

Dwight L. Moody

Men, World, Today

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I hate the phrase “One thing led to another”. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? “Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan”.

Brian Regan

Art, Jobs, Hate

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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Joseph Pulitzer

Character, Men, Intellectual

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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Paul Gauguin

Men, Young, Old Man

Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

Jim Elliot

Men, Thinking, Church

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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.

Bruno Rossi

Men, Feelings, Reason Why

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Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Joe Paterno

Men, Important, Young

"Ignorance no excuse for Joe Paterno" by Gene Wojciechowski, www.espn.com. January 15, 2012.

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Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

Bill Klem

Baseball, Men, Games

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