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Quotes About Man

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
~ Derek Walcott
President Reagan, expanding on President Lincoln's phrase, referred to America as 'the last, best hope of man on Earth.' But this last, best hope is beginning to fade.
~ Edwin Meese
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
~ David Bowie
Bad boys are classy and refined. For example, even though Donald Trump came from money and a privileged lifestyle, he's a man's man.
~ Frank Vincent
Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
~ George Colman
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
~ Ellen Key
I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.
~ Gus Van Sant
I don't really want to get married. I've got my career, my friends - my life is very, very full. It's nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn't rush into anything because I don't think it's right to bring another man into the house with my four children.
~ Jerry Hall
I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.
~ Kyle Gass
Strength training has bought me personally so many health benefits. It always annoyed me that women fear they'll get bulky look like a man.
~ Gemma Atkinson
I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
~ Vicki Lawrence
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
~ Kevin Spacey
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
~ Jacque Fresco
The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic.
~ Vikram Bhatt
I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.
~ Greg Sestero
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
~ Robert McNamara
Ashok Mehta was the man who brought contrast and lighting back to mainstream Hindi film cinematography.
~ Rajiv Menon
You see this Fairy Land is full of oddities and all sorts of incredibly ridiculous things, which a man is compelled to meet and treat as real existences, although all the time he feels foolish for doing so.
~ George MacDonald
Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill? If He did not, He could not be good himself... ...Then He can't be so hard on us as the parsons say, even in the after-life? He will give absolute justice, which is the only good thing. He will spare nothing to bring His children back to himself, their sole well-being, whether He achieve it here--or there.
~ George MacDonald
What does it all mean?' I said. 'A good question,' he rejoined: 'nobody knows what anything is; a man can learn only what a thing means. Whether he do, depends on the use he is making of it.
~ George MacDonald
For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret—the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not it is the innermost chamber.
~ George MacDonald
His likeness to Christ is the truth of a man, even as the perfect meaning of a flower is the truth of a flower…. As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is the Christ perfected in him.
~ George MacDonald