Top 100 Man From Quotes
#1. Nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
Simone Weil
#2. My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
Matisyahu
#3. MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.
Harsha Bhogle
#4. Pain's a delusion."
Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward.
The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.
Aldous Huxley
#6. What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
Ford Madox Ford
#7. Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#8. And what then? One night, a fever, a pleurisy, or an inflammation of the lungs, snatches away this man from the midst of men, stripped in a moment of all his stage accessories, and all this, his glory, is proved a mere dream. Therefore the Prophet has compared human glory to the weakest flower. 3.
Basil The Great
#9. With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.
Stefan Zweig
#10. Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'
Stephen Lang
#12. Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.
Billy Graham
#13. Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
Joseph Addison
#14. Love will never separate a man from his personal legend
Paulo Coelho
#15. MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
Ambrose Bierce
#16. The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
Democritus
#17. The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age
G.K. Chesterton
#18. Individuals of one species are the same in essence or substance. Two human beings differ from one another in matter, but are the same in essence, as being both rational animals. The essential human quality which distinguishes the species Man from all other species is identical in both.
Aldous Huxley
#19. For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
Aristotle.
#20. To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#21. Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
Ellen G. White
#24. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
#25. There's no greater feeling than moving a man from Point A to Point B, against his will.
Russ Grimm
#26. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Bill Veeck
#28. Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority ... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#29. It is not reason which turns the young man from God; it is the flesh. Skepticism but provides him with the excuses for the new life he is leading.
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.
Willie Dixon
#31. Our wish is that ... [there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.
Stephen King
#33. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
Salvador Dali
#36. A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner ... but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.
J. Frank Dobie
#37. I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
Paul Auster
#38. I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.
Kevin Hart
#39. Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
Ricky Gervais
#40. The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
Adolf Hitler
#41. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#43. A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back.
Francis Bacon
#44. With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life
Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.
Diana Gabaldon
#45. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
Henry David Thoreau
#46. I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
Bobby Jones
#47. It's - it's a variable." Kaplan was shaking, white-lipped and pale. "Something from which no inference can be made. The man from the past. The machines can't deal with him. The variable man!
Philip K. Dick
#48. There once was a man from Des Moines
Whose wife was always annoyed
He stepped in the kitchen
She started her bitchin'
Now that fucking cunt is dead.
Frances Winkler
#49. Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
John Lasseter
#50. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler
#51. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.
Thomas Burnett Swann
#52. I was born blond, but I grew out of it
Nobody took man from woman
Nobody took male from female
Nobody took boy from Tom Boy
Nobody took he from she
I'm as sexist as he is
Catherine Elizabeth Clay
#53. A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
Lord Acton
#54. The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
Kedar Joshi
#55. If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.
Ludwig Von Mises
#56. He was overcome by a violent and fraternal love for this man from whom he had felt so distant, and he realized that by killing him he had consummated a union which bound them together forever.
Albert Camus
#57. Fear, worry, and anger. All emotions that blocked a man from hearing God.
Beth Wiseman
#58. God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.
Sunday Adelaja
#59. A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins
#60. That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#61. I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn't recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror.
Jon Ronson
#62. And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him.
Dante Alighieri
#63. It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.
Ryan Graudin
#64. There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one'... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'.
Charles Baudelaire
#65. Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.
Joe Posnanski
#66. Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#68. An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.
James A. Baldwin
#69. If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.
Martin Buber
#70. She frowned at him. "Not every man thinks constantly of... of..."
Darach grinned. "Aye, they do, demoiselle. Every man, from the time he is about ten until the day he dies, thinks frequently of that.
Shelly Thacker
#71. There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.
George MacDonald
#72. God always seeth man from heaven and the angels report to Him every hour.
Sarah Dunant
#73. Hells, Nori-girl, if the Ell called me on it in council, I'd have to swear by the second moon that you couldn't tell a man from a mudsucker.
Tara K. Harper
#74. It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Pliny The Elder
#75. I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
Mother Teresa
#76. Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.
Epicurus
#77. Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny
Paulo Coelho
#79. His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit.
Myles Munroe
#80. The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
Erich Fromm
#81. Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
William Barclay
#82. At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
Joseph Goebbels
#83. I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face, whether it's a man from an ancient culture or a beautiful young model. So what inspires me? Life inspires me.
Russell James
#84. Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
H.P. Lovecraft
#86. I hope you're not contemplating retaliation against Mr. Figueroa."
She smiled again. "Don't need to. Karma will take care of him."
"As long as Karma isn't a hit man from New Delhi, we're good.
Marianne Stillings
#87. You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.
Paulo Coelho
#88. One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#89. First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
Honore De Balzac
#90. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor Adorno
#91. You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his dog,
Jim Butcher
#92. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Thomas Paine
#93. The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
Carleton S. Coon
#95. Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner
#96. I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Jules Renard
#97. The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus
#98. What separates man from animal is not the things we build or the ideas we stand behind. Its our ability to kill from a distance that makes us different
Peyton J Glenn
#99. Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed ... When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
William Cowper
#100. The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.
Harry Martinson
