Quotes About Man

Wertheim later wrote that Fish was "the most polymorphous pervert I had ever known. Someone who practiced every perversion and deviation known to man, from sodomy to sadism, eating excrement and self mutilation.

That Light "enlightens every man that comes into the world, and . . . strives with the children of men, and will continue to strive with them, until it brings them to a knowledge of the truth and the possession of the greater light and testimony of the Holy Ghost."15

To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

When, however, the Warrior is operating on his own, unrelated to these other archetypes, the results for the mortal man accessing even the positive Warrior (the Warrior in his fullness) can be disastrous. As we have said, the Warrior in his pure form is emotionally detached; his transpersonal loyalty radically relativizes the importance of a man's human relationships.

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ.

Whenever the moon and stars are set,Whenever the wind is high,All night long in the dark and wet,A man goes riding by.Late in the night when the fires are out,Why does he gallop and gallop about?

a man needs his whiskey and his cigars, or what's the point of living at all? The

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

In the polyglot Upper Peninsula of Michigan calling a man, say, an Irishman is rarely an effort to demean or stigmatize him

the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. — William Butler Yeats

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. I know that sounds horrible and cruel, considering what happens to a lot of people, and it can't be the whole explanation. But it's a considerable part of it.

She was surprised into looking into the Beast's face. The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.

How does a hundred-and-eighty-pound man turn into a ninety-pound wolf? Where does the leftover ninety go? Does he park it in the umbrella stand overnight?

He took off his black shirt in the dazzling sunshine, exposing a Buddha-sized belly and man breasts the size of fleshy mangoes.

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.

I told Myles Bradley quite clearly that I'd been molested. But I'd kept talking. I should have stopped after I'd told him about the man's weight holding me down. I didn't exactly bury the story Ã¢â'¬â€œ my story Ã¢â'¬â€œ but I made it, somehow, an expected part of every Irishman's education. A bit of gas. Not so bad. Part of what we are.

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must admit that he is this man.

Blood! I called out. Give me blood and vengeance this day, my warriors, and you will be remembered in Amber forever! And as a man. they raised their weapons and cried out, Blood!

As there is a time for everything, there is a time also for the end of anything. This is an age for the consolidation of man's gains upon this world. This is a time for the sharing of knowledge, not the crossing of blades.

Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man - all this will be as nothing to the delight of which I speak.

Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign wretchedness of man, used by Pascal.