Quotes About Man

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.