Quotes About Man

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

like a priest's cassock reaching to the feet. It was altogether a lugubrious figure of a man, sinister and funereal, yet it seemed in perfect harmony with the general character of its surroundings.

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

In the gray beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man?

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

A Divine rule can be established only by a man, who, where justice and equity are required, neither feels deficient nor weak and who is not greedy and avaricious.

Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained.

Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.

THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.

He shakes his head. He was a man on a railway platform. There was no story. Except, there is. There always fucking is.

This may sound like a wild speculation, yet, judging from analogy, there may perhaps be within the planetary sphere an Entity Whose consciousness is as far removed from that of man as the consciousness of man is from that of the atom of chemistry.

With a burro to ride and a burro to drive, There is hardly a man so rich alive.

Oh, to come home to your country After long years away, To see the tall shining towers Rise over the rim of the bay, To feel the west wind steadily blowing And the sunshine golden and hot, To speak to each man as an equal, Whether he is or not.

I have the face of a man who drinks blood, of a woman of guile and deception; of an arrogant beggar who doesn't owe you a thing.

Deus fez o homem à sua semelhança' - poderíamos observar que o Criador nos deu o poder do processo de co-criar.

When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?

And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

my dream, as taught to me by my own mother, was to be the final destination of a man's journey.

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

While in the writings of other religions we discover man seeking ways to reach up to God, here in the uniqueness of the gospel we learn of One who comes seeking to save that which is lost.

Jeremiah 17:5: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Why didn't you shoot him?" "I'm a changed man, boss." Schaffer sighed. "Something splendid has just come into my life." "Besides, you didn't have a chance." "Besides, as you say, I didn't have a chance.

On the west coast of the Isle of Man, near the hamlet of Niarbyl, the cliffs of a small cove have running diagonally across them a thin, greyish-white seam of rock. It is visible for only a hundred metres or so before it disappears into the waters of the Irish Sea but it is a memorial to the making of Scotland. Known as the Iapetus Suture, it marks the precise place where the vast continents of Laurentia and Avalonia collided, having welded the four terranes together.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.