Quotes About Man

singing in the old-fashioned language of this good-hearted man, who sold us Hope at the lowest possible price

Exploded?' said the Queen. 'But it was Anita Brookner.' The young man, who seemed remarkably undeferential, said security may have thought it was a device. The Queen said: 'Yea. That is exactly what it is. A book is a device to ignite the imagination.' The footman said: 'Yes, ma'am.

The black mask, with its slittled forehead and thick, snoutlike breathing apparatus, covered the face of the man he knew as Kylo Ren. Once, he had known the face behind the mask. Once, he has known the man himself. Now, to Lor San Tekka, only the mask was left. Metal instead of a man.

You're all crazy,' he muttered. 'You know that.' 'Man,' Vasquez told him softly, 'why else would anyone join the Colonial Marines?

For an ordinary man, yes she had replied. But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker

Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it — how we treat our fellow man.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value"; but it was tragically wrong "in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."16

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained

You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.

Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?

SR: We are talking of a world war. AQ: And that makes you sweat, son? SR: Heavens, man! Doesn't it you? AQ: This is Africa, dear boy. Sweating is what we do. ~Alan Quartermain and Sanderson Reed

Ladies and gentleman! You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you...the average man!!

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow, The longer he lies, the more stupid he becomes, His thirst for survival and happiness in the future, Prevents him from living in the present. Chuang Tzu

They have forgotten why dharma was instituted and kingdoms established in the first place: to create extra material resources so that man can look beyond survival and look for meaning.

Prakriti is nature. Brahmanda is culture. Prakriti creates man. Man creates Brahmanda. Prakriti is objective reality. Brahmanda is subjective reality. Atma witnesses Prakriti, aham constructs Brahmanda.

greatness is not transmitted through the generations. Every man ultimately makes or destroys his own legacy.

There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier.