Quotes About Man

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. It is in fact the great exciter of the Yes function in man.

Chapman's craft, his example, invites us to imagine a very different kind of story about Man and Nature, one that shrinks the distance between the two, so that we might again begin to see them for what they are and in spite of everything will always be, which is in this boat together.

As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

When you get to be a certain size as a man, all the shirts end up having giant dogs on them or things like that!

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

I think there's an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don't care if you're an angel, you're my angel, and I won't let you go.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

She was, after all, an American woman, an irreversible product of a culture that stops just short of giving her a separate identity. He was, after all, an American man whose respect for individuality and freedom of choice are his nation's pride.