Quotes about man

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“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”

“Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.”

“Education is the art of making man ethical”

“I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not”

“Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.”

“So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man."
"Yep"
"What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?”

“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”

“Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?”

“When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.”

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's…”

“The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own… always comes home to you.”

“I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?”

“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”

“Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.”

“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances."
Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”

“Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.”

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.”

“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything”

“If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don’t compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he’ll be thrilled, because he took you there.”

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”

“A blind man can see how much I love you”

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”

“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

“So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.”

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

“I had no reason to get all goofy, just because the man was too good-looking for his own good.”

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”

“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

“A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.”

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

“I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding."

"To save your reputation?"

Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buyfrom a man who's selling fear.”

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”

“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”

“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”

“There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.”

“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.”

“I left my mark on that man.”

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”

“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”

“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but…"
His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure.
He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.”

“He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.”

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”

“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants… Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”

“Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.”

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

“Honor is the presence of God in man.”

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”

“Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne”

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

“I want to be an honest man and a good writer.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”

“No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.”

“Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”

“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

“A crossbow?” Pigeon asked.
I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.”

“Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.”

“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“Do you have children? she asked.

No.

Why?

The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.”

“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water”

“… a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous…”

“The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

“One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.”

“If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

“It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.”

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”

“In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”