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Quotes About Man

The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great
~ Unknown
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
~ Ian Caldwell
the air just went cold, as it did those times before, and started sticking to my skin, on my arms and legs and face, everywhere. I had seen a marble statue in a museum, a well built man doubled over throwing something, and the feeling reminded me of him. It was as if I was starting to be made of marble.
~ Unknown
Only one man was not surprised. He was not surprised because he had no concept of normality that the events in Neu Ulmsbad Square could violate.
~ Unknown
He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.
~ Ian Rankin
I'm a man. I have a 50/50 refrigerator. Half's what I'm going to eat. The rest's in there so it won't smell before I throw it away.
~ Unknown
Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet Some behaviour I am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.
~ Idries Shah
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
~ Idries Shah
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
~ Idries Shah
Los ángeles son los poderes ocultos en las facultades y órganos del hombre
~ Idries Shah
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
~ Idries Shah
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah
He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.
~ Idries Shah
Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it.
~ Idries Shah
first pious man, who said: 'Did you encounter my disciples and help them?' Khidr answered:
~ Idries Shah
What is known to be tyranny to the superior man may appear to be justice to the ordinary one.
~ Idries Shah
Antes de que el antídoto llegue de Iraq, el hombre con la picadura de serpiente habrá muerto.
~ Idries Shah
La experiencia y conocimiento superior será puesto a disposición del hombre, exactamente según su valía, capacidad y esfuerzo puesto en ello
~ Idries Shah
Sufism is the knowledge whereby man can realize himself and attain permanency.
~ Idries Shah
The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time." Igor Stravinsky, quoted in DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 3. from Igor Stravinsky' Autobiography (1962). New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., p. 54.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Remember that women are revengeful and do all in their power to wreck a man when they separate from him and the only way to win is for the man to become successful.
~ Unknown
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
~ Colin Hanks