Man Quotes
-
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
-
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
-
'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
-
I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
-
Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
-
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
-
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
-
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
-
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
-
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
-
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
-
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
-
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
-
I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
-
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
-
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
-
I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
-
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
-
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
-
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
-
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
-
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
-
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
-
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
