Man Quotes

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

A Gentleman

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

Herman Melville

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

Kahlil Gibran

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?

Galt Niederhoffer

We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

A married man is a preoccupied man.

Heather Day Gilbert

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

Kyle Barger

Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.

James Hervey Johnson

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.

Max Wertheimer

I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into the depths. When I let this hate free, I am almost overcome by it, but I cannot change this and do not really know how it could be otherwise. Let no one deprecate this, nor fool himself about the power of such hatred. Hate drives to reality. Hate is the father of the action. The way out of our defiled and desecrated house is through the command to hate Satan. Only so will be earn the right to search in the darkness for the way of love.In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers.

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.

Steve Harvey

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Lloyd Alexander

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Shaun Hick

The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!

Israelmore Ayivor

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Wilkie Collins

I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.

Daniel Willey

He alone is a man who keeps his word:Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

Guru Gobind Singh

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Michael Bassey Johnson

..and she a star, to outshine all the suns of mans days.

Celia McMahon

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Kenneth Oakley

A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.

Terraine Francois

Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.

Agatha Christie

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)

Charles de Leusse

It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us our only vision into Natural History’s big book; and it isn't a book in first-class condition. Far from it! Just a tiny scrap; a slip; or, possibly a big chunk is found, with nothing notifying us as to how it got to that particular point, nor how long ago. Man can only look at it, lift it, rap it, cut into it, and squint at it through a magnifying glass. And,— think about it. That’s all; until a formal study brings accompanying thoughts from many minds; and, by such tactics, judging that in all probability such and such a rock or fossil footprint is about so old. Natural History holds you in its grasp through just this impossibility of finding actual facts; for it is thus causing you to think. Now, thinking is not only a voluntary function; it is an acquisition; an art. Plants do not think. Animals probably do, but in a primary way, such as an aid in knowing poisonous foods, and how to bring up an offspring with similar ability. But Man can, and should think, and think hard and constantly. It is ridiculous to rush blindly into an action without looking forward to lay out a plan. Such an unthinking custom is almost a panic, and panic is but a mild form of insanity

Ernest Vincent Wright

But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don’t know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don’t ‘bloom’ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,— adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.

Ernest Vincent Wright

A man can not return anything except what is full.

Davi Oliveira

The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.

Steven Magee

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

Margaret Atwood

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

Henrietta C. Mears

The earth is man’s domain.

Sunday Adelaja

Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.

Sunday Adelaja

The USA states that it can put a man on the moon. I have a hard time believing this, as it is quite clear that they cannot build a simple electrical system that does not make people sick in large numbers!

Steven Magee

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.

jessic lawson

You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )

Erik Pevernagie

Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( "Man without Qualities" )

Erik Pevernagie

Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.

Brandon Sanderson

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.

Sunday Adelaja

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

Georges Bataille

Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention.

Christina Engela

If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative

Sunday Adelaja

A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.

Jeffrey Fry

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

William Henry III

Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.

Sunday Adelaja

Delayed gratification is what makes a man.

Sunday Adelaja

A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding

Sunday Adelaja

For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose

Sunday Adelaja

We stood at the crossroads and we all knew that we should turn right to where the sign pointed, but in our stupidity we turned left and out over the precipice.I guess we had the same chance with pollution, but then again, we were at those damn crossroads.

Anthony T.Hincks

Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Ex ‘Fleet man?”“He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.”“Interesting.” Falconer commented. “Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him.” She swallowed. “Yes sir.”Falconer returned his attention to Nordyke.“What’s their location?”“They’re about a week outside the Hermes system, Captain.”“Helm, set a course – best possible speed!”“Um – sir, we’re on conversion drive at the moment.” The helmsman reported.“I know, Linson – d’you think I’m senile?”“No, sir – I…” The young helmsman stammered.“I did say ‘best possible speed’, didn’t I?”“Yes, sir.

Christina Engela

Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.

Atom Tate

You don't want to be here... neither and there... what you are going to see here is the truth after so much books, series, movies... the truth is going to have feet, legs... foot... and even a body and arms and head....

Deyth Banger

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

Abhijit Naskar

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