Quotes About Man

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought."(Christian D. Larson)

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.