Man Quotes
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
