Man Quotes
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
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It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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A man is a phoenix, who must be reborn from his own ashes, for there is no other like him in the universe. If the wind stirs the ashes into a clumsy parody, then the phoenix is dead forever. Nothing we know of can bring you back.
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
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My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
