Quotes About Man

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

Man alone measures time.Man alone chimes the hour.And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.A fear of time running out.

Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the property of a man and suffer all the humiliation of submerging her character and her very identity in his?

She was in the presence of a stranger, of a man she had never seen before, yet one she had known all her life and perhaps even before that.

Henry could not escape the truth. She loved Marius quite hopelessly. Finally, after believing that no man would ever be worthy of her entire trust and respect, she seemed to have found such a man.