Boys Quotes - Page 28

• We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

  Thomas Hughes

  Life, Fall, Learning

  Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.69, Litres

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• I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

  Mickey Spillane

  Country, New York, Hate

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

  John Eldredge

  Girl, Fun, Hockey

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.10, Thomas Nelson

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• Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

  Trey Anastasio

  Spiritual, Heart, Guitar

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Mind, Actors

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

  Chris Lowe

  Song, Writing, Technology

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• It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

  Neil Tennant

  Our World, Pet, Fundamentals

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• I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

  Alex Campbell

  Wife, Peace With God, World

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• The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

  Alex Campbell

  Wife, World, Want

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• I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.

  Rachel Klein

  Sex, Men, Would Be

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

  Dorothy Thompson

  People, Election, Dictator

  "Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas, (p. 172), 2006.

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• I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement

  John Byrne

  Dream, Reality, Waking

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• There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

  Charles Mackay

  Time, Good Times

  Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

  Paul Murray

  Fall, Opportunity, Arrows

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• Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.

  John Eldredge

  Father, Heart, Journey

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

  John Eldredge

  Growing Up, Warrior, Men

  John Eldredge (2002). “Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Simple

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

  Jim Carroll

  Pain, Joy, Catholic

  Song: Catholic Boy

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• Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.

  John Eldredge

  Crazy, Design, Risk

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• Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Years

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

  John Webster

  Greatness, Air, Care

  John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

  Robert Anderson

  Sympathy, Giving, Tea

  Tea and Sympathy, act 1 (1953)

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• I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

  Danny McBride

  Hair, Rocks, Wife

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Scratches, Fickle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At the time I came along, Hollywoods idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

  John Hughes

  Sex, Teenager, Ideas

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