Top 100 Not Man Quotes
#1. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#3. Because I've been around guys like that my whole life. He will always be a little boy who acts like a dog. Guys don't really change who they are at their core. Even if he wanted to, it would be a completely uphill battle, and he's not man enough for the journey.
Sheri Fink
#4. An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, "I will hasten my work in its time" (D&C 88:73).
Russell M. Nelson
#5. Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
Pindar
#6. Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
Hudson Taylor
#8. Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.
Robert Hurt
#9. There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
Herman Melville
#10. And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature.
Jules Verne
#11. The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way.
Thomm Quackenbush
#12. A true Christian and true servant of God serves God and not man
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Nicolas Chamfort
#15. The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.
John Flavel
#16. Reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#17. I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
Joyce Meyer
#18. But God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man ...
Joe Hill
#20. Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
#21. It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.
Daniel Quinn
#22. Whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, u who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Anonymous
#24. .....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you.
Sam Crescent
#25. I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart.
I am rain.
I cannot be contained
Alan Moore
#26. The universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In
Robert A. Heinlein
#27. It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck.
Eka Kurniawan
#28. The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Mark Twain
#29. The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
Albert Einstein
#30. It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
Lev Shestov
#31. An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
Andre Malraux
#32. The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
Emil Cioran
#33. For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.
James Carroll
#34. Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
Abdu'l- Baha
#35. [Christ] pointed out that forms and ceremonies were made for man, not man for forms and ceremonies.
Oscar Wilde
#36. I am not man or beast; I am bibliosexual, and a seedy bibliosexual who haunts the streets, laden with carrier bags held by blistered fingers, stooping under the weight of the rucksack that has brought on sciatica and a Dickensian demeanour.
Robin Ince
#37. First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
Sean MacBride
#39. It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Anne Rice
#40. When someone has learned to minister supernaturally, he will always be abiding in joy, in peace and in rest; he will live righteously, because he knows that the Lord is the One who builds all things, and not man.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful ...
... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
Robinson Jeffers
#42. The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth
#43. People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.
Billy Graham
#44. They say man only needs six feet of Earth. But it is a corpse, and not man, which needs these six feet.
Anton Chekhov
#45. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
Rene Dubos
#46. Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.
Deron Williams
#48. You must please God and not man with your ministry
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
J.G. Holland
#50. Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
Elie Wiesel
#51. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
George Gordon Byron
#54. The fourth principal division of names, is into positive and negative. Positive, as man, tree, good; negative, as not-man, not-tree, not-good. To every positive concrete name, a corresponding negative one might be framed.
John Stuart Mill
#55. But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.
James Gilmour
#56. 6So they are no longer two but one flesh. w What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
Anonymous
#57. God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
#58. Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.
Alexander Pope
#59. Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#60. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#61. Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Plautus
#63. Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
Benjamin Hoff
#65. The result is that God gave to the woman a corresponding power or authority as that possessed by the man. Therefore, the woman was not man's "helpmate," but a full power or authority corresponding to Adam.
Gary T. Meadors
#66. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
#67. God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn't the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he?
Stefan Emunds
#68. It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
Khalil Gibran
#72. Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.
Robert H. Schuller
#73. Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney
#74. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man, and in all ways has proved Herself a more deserving object of man's worship than Christ, that unshaven fanatic who lusted for the end of the world.
Joe Hill
#75. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
Alexander Pope
#76. Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
John Piper
#77. Jesus did not teach His disciples how to preach but how to pray. To know how to speak to God is more vital than knowing how to speak to men. It is power with God not man that is of supreme
Andrew Murray
#78. This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
Paramahansa Yogananda
#79. We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
Vernon Howard
#80. Was it not because I loved man all-too-much? Now I love God. man I love not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing. Love of man would kill me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
J. Michael Straczynski
#82. Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?
Ugo Betti
#83. Firstly, prayer is a conversation between God and the soul, and secondly, a particular language is spoken: God's language. Prayer is dialogue, not man's monologue before God.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#84. The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.
Sam Keen
#85. You're a boy playing in men's games, Sharpie, and you're going to lose unless you're a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, Sharpie, but you're not man enough, are you?
Bernard Cornwell
#86. Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
Pablo Picasso
#87. When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.
Jane Porter
#88. The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#89. Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
Mark Twain
#91. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
#92. The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.
Allyson Jones
#93. The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#94. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.
Thor Heyerdahl
#95. When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
Betty Williams
#96. I am quite an admirer of Fidel [Castro]. For me, Fidel is the first and the best man in solidarity with the peoples of the world. Fidel shares not just what he does not need, but every little thing he has. That is called solidarity.
Evo Morales
#97. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
Christopher Morley
#98. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.
Howard Thurman
#99. If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
William Kingdon Clifford
#100. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
