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Quotes About Man

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
~ Jim Butcher
Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?
~ Jim Butcher
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
~ Jodi Picoult
I was part of the journey of a remarkable man [Barack Obama] who did remarkable things.
~ Joe Biden
Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.
~ Joe Lieberman
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
~ Joe Namath
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.
~ John Adams
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
~ John Adams
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
~ John Ashbery
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
~ John C. Wright
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
~ John Donne
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
~ John Donne
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
~ John Donne
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
~ John Donne
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.
~ John Dryden
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
~ John Edgar Park
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
~ John F. Kennedy
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
~ John F. Kennedy
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
~ John F. Kennedy
You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.
~ John Fogerty