Man Quotes
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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You would fancy any man who gave you baklava," I tease. "You think I am some kind of sharmuta for sweets?
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Call me the “stan” man. Or have you ever been to Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizia or Kazakhstan. Give it eight weeks and I will have done them all.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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Come on, man, I got a full beard!
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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. . . you should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man. . . This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
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Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will rush madly down the steep of sensuousness and impious self-will until he finds himself engulphed in the abyss of perdition. The trial of freedom had failed: the second of the ages was ended.
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A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
