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Quotes About Man

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
~ Epictetus
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
~ Honore de Balzac
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.
~ Robert Breault
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
~ Karl Marx
It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
~ Mark Twain
I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.
~ Noel Gallagher
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
~ Henry Miller
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
~ John Desmond Bernal
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
~ Albert Einstein
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
~ Alfred de Vigny
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
~ Andre Maurois
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
~ Charles Dickens
Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time.
~ Chris Jericho
A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
~ David Mamet
I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.
~ David Suchet
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.
~ Jeanette Lee
And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
~ John Steinbeck
I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.
~ Tom Mison
For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
~ William Somervile
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.
~ Angela Carter
One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'
~ Demetri Martin