Quotes About Man

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

anxiety and subsequent panic attacks were the result of being conflicted between the fear of the Lord and the fear of man. Proverbs 29:25 says, "The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.

Never trust a man who doesn't like animals. That's my rule.

And I saw a man- go up to one of the doors of the train and press a big button next to it and the doors were electric and they slid open and I liked that.

HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED AND SET TO FORM. A PROMISE INDEED THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL ENDURE INTO THE AGES. Like

I don't have a system. Theology is a system. Not my theology. Then what is it? What is it? It's the overwhelming combination of all that I've seen, felt, and cannot explain, that has stayed with me and refused to depart, that drives me again and again to a faith of which I am not sure, that is alluring because it will not stoop to be defined by so inadequate a creature as man. Unlike Marxism, it is ineffable, and it cannot be explained in words.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world.

The oldest-known permanent photograph, an image of a man leading a horse, dates from 1825.

Since this book hails thinkers for their lights, and pays scant heed to their stripes, I should acknowledge here that Judaism and Christianity, like other great religions, have irreconcilable doctrinal differences, both within and without. Rabbi Pinhas: "The principal danger of man is religion.")

From the very beginning, and throughout the whole of our affair, I had the privilege of knowing what we all find out in the end: the man we love is a complete stranger.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non può scegliere cessa di essere un uomo

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

Goodness comes from within. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded and there ain't nothing on the roll?/To prove you're a man, you must wipe with your hand/Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl.

His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.

The autobiographer, for his part, is imprisoned in his own egotism. He must always be suspect. In contrast with the other two, the novelist is a god, creating his man, making him breathe and walk. The man, created in his own image, provides information about the god. In a sense you know more about Balzac and Dickens from their novels, than Rousseau and Casanova from their Confessions.

An expert is an ordinary man away from home giving advice. —OSCAR WILDE

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'; man who's afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I've ever seen. So there's nothing to do but forget it, that's all. Seems to me

That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

He's a very handsome man, is the captain, said Jeaneatte. . . You shouldn't think about handsome men, child, said Mrs. Greenow. And I'm sure I don't, said Jeanette. Not more than anybody else; but if a man is handsome, ma'am, why, it stands to reason that he is handsome.

Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.