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Quotes About Man

I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?
~ Herman Melville
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
~ Herman Melville
This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.
~ Herman Melville
But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.
~ Herman Melville
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
~ Herman Melville
The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers.
~ Herman Melville
So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have broken his digester.
~ Herman Melville
While his one live leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked.
~ Herman Melville
and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.
~ Herman Melville
Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
~ Herman Melville
I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?
~ Herman Melville
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
~ Don Cheadle
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
~ Matt Lucas
A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
~ Derek Luke
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.
~ Jakob Bohme
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.
~ Russell Smith
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
~ Tupac Shakur
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.
~ Robert Greene
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
~ Maya Angelou
You always know about the guys who are sorta like the moral winner. Then, all the sudden, a guy comes up - the average, hardworking young man - and pulls off something that's, you know, totally unexpected, and in such a dynamic fashion.
~ Buster Douglas
It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man.
~ Frank Abagnale
Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
~ Alvaro Enrigue
Early in my career, I got roles that demanded that I be fit to carry off the angry young man look. Of course, I'm a fitness freak, and that's something I picked up from my dad.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna