Quotes about man

Christopher Dutton -

Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man that is civilization that is Order and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.

Helen Rowland -

A good woman inspires a man a brilliant woman interests him a beautiful woman fascinates him and a sympathetic woman gets him.

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

22. Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting in the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing to risk His willingness to do it in your life is another.

Anonymous - Holy Bible: King James Version

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

Thiruman Archunan -

Nature hides a man many things but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what man decides what to show the society how.

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality

Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good all that which destroys it is the evil.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal -

Thoughts don't become things thoughts ARE things.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Every man love to see a world full of women and girls even if it costs him killing every man in the world.

Santosh Kalwar - That's My Love Story

A woman's lust is for a short time a man's lust is forever.

Eyden I. - Kiss Friendzone Goodbye

The greatest wealth a man can have is the richness of soul... Smile It intimidates those who wish to destroy you

Shannon L. Alder -

A boy has other people do the talking for him a man speaks his mind.

Nick Joaquín - Culture and History

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

Felix Wantang - God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

The complexities of life can never be untangled by man like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Man is divided into two categories men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Positively Inspired Man of Purpose my style is P.I.M.P.'ish.

Terence McKenna -

Nature is not mute it is man who is deaf.

Yiyun Li -

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.

Yiyun Li -

It was not about keeping a man it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.

James Edwin Gunn - Transcendental

A man is what a man is he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.

Munindra Misra - PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

God’s Creation - fulfillment of love Man’s creation - fulfillment of want

Knut Hamsun - Dreamers

Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life and he let his hair grow right through the winter so that he appeared more and more artistic. His fiancée reacted by saying that he looked like a painter who had ended up as a photographer.

Steven Adams -

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

Robert Penn Warren -

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Plato -

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Robert Kennedy -

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Marcus Aurelius -

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Ayn Rand -

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Charles Dickens -

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Albert Schweitzer -

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Alan Ladd -

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

Lillian Hellman -

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Bertrand Russell -

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Lady Gregory -

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Michael Leunig -

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Charlie Sheen -

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charles Bukowski -

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Jay-Z -

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

Maya Angelou -

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Paul Dirac -

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Maya Angelou -

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Charles Baudelaire -

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Wallace Stevens -

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Stephen Greenblatt -

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Chris Stapleton -

Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it's all just music, man. If you like one of them, great - go buy it.

E. M. Forster -

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Billy Collins -

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.

Mahatma Gandhi -

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Thomas Jefferson -

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Jose Rizal -

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

Vinoba Bhave -

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Daniel Craig -

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

Akkineni Nagarjuna -

Early in my career, I got roles that demanded that I be fit to carry off the angry young man look. Of course, I'm a fitness freak, and that's something I picked up from my dad.

Rosa Parks -

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

Alvin Toffler -

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

J. B. Priestley -

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Freda Adler -

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

J. F. Powers -

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Emma Goldman -

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

John Raese -

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

Tiberius -

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

John D. MacDonald -

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John Wycliffe -

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

Kyle Hill -

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.

Frank Bruno -

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

William Temple -

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Charles Atlas -

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Shah Rukh Khan -

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of a woman a man doesn't understand.

Carlos Santana -

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

Benjamin Disraeli -

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Fidel Castro -

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

St. Jerome -

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Herbert Hoover -

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Mary Wollstonecraft -

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Peter Abrahams -

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

Edward Abbey -

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Epictetus -

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

George Jean Nathan -

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Richard Savage -

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

John Burroughs -

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

Butch Trucks -

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

Publilius Syrus -

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

Henry David Thoreau -

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

E. W. Howe -

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

William Ellery Channing -

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Amos Bronson Alcott -

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Benjamin Haydon -

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Booker T. Washington -

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Francis Bacon -

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Nikos Kazantzakis -

One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Louis Nizer -

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Henry Ward Beecher -

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Louis L'Amour -

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Saint Francis de Sales -

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Marcus Aurelius -

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Confucius -

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.