Minute Men Quotes

#1. In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.

Paul Revere

#2. We witness in two ways: by life and by word ... God's purpose . , after we have been converted is that we be witnesses to His saving grace and power. We are to be commandoes for Christ. We are to be minute-men for Him.

Billy Graham

#3. This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Preston Sturges

#4. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

F. Murray Abraham

#5. The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

Stephen Leacock

#6. Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

Elizabeth Peters

#7. Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Jean Paul

#8. Virginity, like many things connected to men, was obviously vastly over-rated. And frankly, so was sexual intimacy. No wonder Villiers didn't care if she'd had previous experiences. It was all a matter of a minute at most.

Eloisa James

#9. Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.

Alice Walker

#10. I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

Irakli Okruashvili

#11. One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer, director, producer, studio head, movie star - they all wanted it. It was the hottest property since Rocky.

Chazz Palminteri

#14. If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

William Blake

#15. Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Thomas Aquinas

#17. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

H.L. Mencken

#19. The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#20. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Matthew Diamond

#21. One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

Vladimir Lenin

#22. Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached them, you knew they would disappear bit by bit until the only thing left was a memory.

Kathryn Miller Haines

#23. She had seen expert methods of flirtation and temptation, not to mention last-minute flip of denial. What men liked to call a tease. What they loved to call a tease. They stomped and growled about it, but they always hung around for more.

Jacquelyn Frank

#24. I couldn't stay in that room with both men one more minute ...
Even a human woman could have drowned in the testosterone in the air, it was so strong.

Patricia Briggs

#25. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

Fran Lebowitz

#26. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.

Toni Morrison

#27. Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister

#29. I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

John Leguizamo

#30. Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")

Cornell Woolrich

#31. Men fuck up, you know. Except for Damien," she adds with a completely straight face. "He's perfectly perfect." She manages to hold it together for a minute, and then we both laugh.

J. Kenner

#32. The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

Henry David Thoreau

#33. A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

Jean De La Bruyere

#34. With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Rodney Dangerfield

#35. In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Salman Rushdie

#36. In another minute or two, those men would have tossed your skirts in that alley right there... if you were wearing skirts!" You should be thanking me for saving your sorry hide! By my calculations, that's twice in one day.

Melissa Lurquette

#37. Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

V.S. Pritchett

#38. I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Allison Pearson

#39. The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

#40. I wish I could line up naked the men I've slept with and just gloat for a hot minute. Beautiful creatures.

Crystal Woods

#41. My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.

Cher

#42. Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.

Jennifer Ashley

#43. First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter

#44. Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

Emma Forrest

#45. Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Gemma Halliday

#46. The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

#47. I couldn't go over there, man. Once I saw the blood. I'm not good with blood.. It choked me up for a minute. We were laughing and giggling one minute, the next minute, a man's down on the ground, both of them.

Cliff Floyd

#48. Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

G.K. Chesterton

#49. Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

E.L. Konigsburg

#50. I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say?
"I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men.

Joe Abercrombie

#51. The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

Confucius