Quotes About Man

Sadeas flushed, but kept his temper. "A whore joke, Wit? Is that the best you can manage?" Wit shrugged. "I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

He was a man.Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be.

It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.

would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid

The most dangerous kind of man is not the one who spent his youth shoving others around. That kind of man gets lazy, and is often too content with his life to be truly dangerous. The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however . . . When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.

The love of a woman, a good woman, is the greatest gift a man could ever receive.

A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.

There's nothing like self-pity for thoroughly dissipating a man. And when a nation indulges in that luxury it finds itself with a dictator.

He stepped out into the sunny street, a man with a piece of information which he couldn't get rid of, a man who felt useless because his usefulness couldn't be used.

Edward Fane climbed heavily into bed, with the boredom of a man who has long learned to expect no pleasure there.

Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his neighbor. Hence the history of the world is the history of war.

The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to prevent its progress.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

Compassion is born when we discover in the center of our own existence not only that God is God and man is man, but also that our neighbor is really our fellow man.

Jesus, the Son of God, is the man of sorrows, but also the man of complete joy.

Compassion must become the core and even the nature of authority. When the Christian leader is a man of God for the future generation, he can be so only insofar as he is able to make the compassion of God with man—which is visible in Jesus Christ—credible in his own world.

Nuclear man is a man who has lost naïve faith in the possibilities of technology and is painfully aware that the same powers that enable man to create new life styles carry the potential for self-destruction.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.