Man Quotes
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
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Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
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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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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
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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 you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.
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Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
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Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
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Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
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Man is a god to his fellow-man, if he know his duty.
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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If you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
