Quotes About Man

The evidence that man does not love God and His Christ is that he does not keep His commandments.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

I would see languages with shades of each other, like the colours of Cézanne which often have a green with some red a red with some green, in my mind I saw a glowing still life as if a picture of English with French words French with English words German with French words & English words Japanese with French English & German words—I was just about to leave when I met a man who seemed to know quite a lot about Schoenberg.

French pedicures make your toes look like fingers. You look grabby. French pedicures are for man thieves.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.

When I trained my hawk I was having a quiet conversation, of sorts, with the deeds and works of a long-dead man who was suspicious, morose, determined to despair. A man whose life disturbed me. But a man, too, who loved nature, who found it surprising, bewitching and endlessly novel.

he could write, with the joy of discovering something new in the world. And it is that joy, that childish delight in the lives of creatures other than man, that I love most in White. He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.

good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content,

I resent this man. Why should the happiness of the whole civilised world depend on him?

I examined the portraits nearest to me but couldn't get past the sensation that here was the same man over and over, crouched in old boxes, readying himself to spit on my plate.

I said that as far as I could gather it was a tale about a woman who could be led out of captivity only by a man, and that the man could save her only by ignoring her.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: "Then it's there.

A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: 'Then it's there.

Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Rodin once said that a combination of extraordinary circumstances was needed for a man to live to 70 and to pursue with passion what he loves.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

What the sunshine is to the field and to the flowers the Holy Spirit is to the life of man.