Quotes About Man

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.

If you're going to fight Tom Cruise, you really don't want to make that man bleed.

There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Nothing is more terrifying to a man than an angry woman. Add a long wooden implement to the equation and the effect is profoundly unnerving.

His uncles had given him some money, and his boss had given him a letter of recommendation that read, "I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.

The fear which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.

They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that's damned lies.

Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could cry at such scenes because it seems to tell him that his life is not approved. The remnant of innocence burns in his breast like a ember of the very sun.

I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.

Night took the faces of this man and woman and peeled them off like a question formed inside a fetal darkness mouth.

The highest order of mental health must include the freedom of a man to employ his intelligence for the solution of human problems, his own and those of his society.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

You're running toward your fate, a better life, and you still have it all before you. You get to choose the sort of man you want to be. It's your choice, James, no one else's.

To receive man's recognition, you will have to abide by man's rules. And man's recognition might lead you to success, but it will never lead you to satisfaction. Satisfaction comes only from being recognized by God.

am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature. I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions.

Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment. ''Do you prefer reading to cards?'' said he; ''that is rather singular.'' ''I prefer a great many things to cards, Mr. Hurst,'' said Elisabeth; ''Not the least of which is the sensation of a newly sharpened blade as it punctures the round belly of a man.'' Mr. Hurst was silent for the remainder of the evening.

Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola.