Quotes about man

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“One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”

“Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”

“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words”

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”

“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end… and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”

“For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”

“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

“When a man is born… there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese proverb”

“You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

“You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.”

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

“Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.”

“Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been”

“Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)”

“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”

“I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.”

“The man glanced down and made a face. "I see that many pigeons have pooped upon these stairs," he remarked. "I shall remain standing, if that's not too rude.”

“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

“Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation”

“There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.”

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

“If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.”

“Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?”

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”

“Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.”

“What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?”

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.”

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”

“You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.”

“You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth.

Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.”

“It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them.”

“… when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~”

“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

“The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. […] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies.”

“Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.”

“A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.”

“I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.”

“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”

“If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men”

“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”

“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

“I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me”

“My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.”

“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”

“Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man.”

“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder”

“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”

“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”

“Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

“No man may be completely invulnerable.”

“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”

“The man was allergic to sleep.”

“The man irritated her just like a rash.”

“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.”

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”

“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”

“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”

“Patriotism… is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”

“Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.”

“I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all.

His passion had been artificial.

His pursuit of me had been choreographed.”

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

“To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”

“Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me.
"You think I should slap some man into him?”

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”

“If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”