Quotes About Man

No science will ever replace myth, and a myth cannot be made out of any science. For it is not that "God" is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth, rather it speaks to us as a Word of God. The Word of God comes to us, and we have no way of distinguishing whether and to what extent it is different from God.

Who has vocation hears the voice of the inner man; he is called. And so it is the legendary belief that he possesses a private demon who counsels him and whose mandates he must execute.

Theology masters the man; the man is never to master the theology.

The people know the salt of the seaand the strength of the windslashing the corners of the earth.The people take the earthas a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.Who else speaks for the Family of Man?

Since God actually became visible man, no visible man should leave the visible world to its own devices.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.

great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers.

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds ' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.

Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . . CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

Oh, there was so much evil in a man . . .

Yet as bad as she felt, it was nothing compared to the stark despair she saw in Rafferty's eyes. It was so total, and went so deep, that it made her forget her own hurt to see it. It was the look of a man who'd given up deep inside where it mattered most, and for Maggie, who was a survivor to her very toes, it was profoundly disturbing.

This man could say anything in the world to me and he'd still be the one shame-buying Dan Brown.

I pity the man she marries.

That's one thing I like about you, Sarah Booth. You put your own personal style on a room. I'd call this boudoir pigsty. Yes sir, any man would find this an enticin' little love nest, if he didn't break his neck tryin' to get to the bed.

What is this place?" Now that they'd stopped, his body registered violent objection to the abuse of a mile's walk down the mountain. Hell. To pay. Pandelion whined. "Home," replied Miss Willow. He held out his hand for the key. She sighed. "You're a very managing sort." "I am a man, Miss Willow." "I dislike being managed." "Alas," said Sebastian.

The tin pan notes of a piano drift faintly into the night. A man curses and a window slams. Far distant an ash can clatters on stone and the almost human screech of a cat pierces the night.

Freedom had a thousand faces. But so did crime. The thought of what a man might do made me dizzy.

I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,       Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;       'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link       Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.