Top 100 Quotes About Man's
#1. To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
Joyce Carol Oates
#2. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.
Samuel Pepys
#3. One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.
Arjun Appadurai
#4. Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men among whom he lives, and finally man's relation
W. Somerset Maugham
#5. The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.
Chief Joseph
#6. A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
John Burroughs
#7. Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis De Sade
#8. A man's thoughts can change his entire life;Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.
Justice Clement
#9. [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.
Jamey Johnson
#11. It was one of those moments - which sometimes occur only at the interval of years - when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#12. 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
#13. Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.
George R R Martin
#14. A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.
Saint John Chrysostom
#15. A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#16. The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
A.P. Herbert
#17. Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo
#18. If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde
#19. But a sliver of un-crossable distance had slipped between them; an invisible, wisp-thin no man's land.
M.L. Stedman
#20. They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.
Joe Hill
#21. Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?
George R R Martin
#22. Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.
William Gilmore Simms
#23. Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.
Howard G. Hendricks
#24. But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.
Clive Barker
#25. The older man's bushy gray eyebrows bunched up in the middle as if they were hairy bugs trying to mate.
James Dashner
#26. However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Blaise Pascal
#27. Every law that God has given has been for man's benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.
Billy Graham
#28. Those who speak of man's "free will," and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam's fallen children.
Arthur W. Pink
#30. I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathanael Emmons
#31. One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
Mary Shelley
#32. Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. - St. Ignatius Loyola
James Martin
#33. A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.
John Steinbeck
#34. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.
B.R. Ambedkar
#35. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell
Haruki Murakami
#36. The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
Flavor Flav
#37. Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.
Erich Von Manstein
#38. To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
#40. It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
Mark Twain
#41. It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Margaret Mead
#42. It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.
Joe Abercrombie
#43. It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.
Zach Braff
#44. ...if a man's thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.
J.D. Netto
#45. The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#46. Sexual intercourse ... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
Anais Nin
#47. Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man's life than the discovery that there do exist people very, very like himself.
C.S. Lewis
#49. Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
Matthew Henry
#51. Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ...
Ayn Rand
#52. Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.
Benjamin Creme
#53. The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.
Ray Bradbury
#54. A man's heart is stonier than the gravel he walks on.
Stephen King
#55. The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope.
Jorge Luis Borges
#56. We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
Moses Harvey
#57. By Genesis 6:5, we see that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The fear of God was suppressed by man's thirst for the ungodly. How does Yahweh respond to this rebellion? He sends a flood.
Chris Poblete
#58. Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.
Malcolm Forbes
#60. A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
Michael Caine
#61. A woman counsels caution, while a man's heart burns to see justice done.
Catherine M. Wilson
#62. Korsakov got himself shot again, eh? Not surprised. the man's hobby is getting shot. He has a positive talent for it.
James Kennedy
#63. Faith and politics are now one and the same," he went on. "Perhaps it was always so, but it seems to have reached new extremes in our troubled century, do you not think? A man's religion tells me where his political loyalties lie, far more than his place of birth or his language.
S.J. Parris
#64. Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
Margaret Mead
#65. History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#66. I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass,
Joan Clarke
#67. To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
Alec Waugh
#68. Before OkCupid profiles became mandated by the Galactic Government, the only way to find a mate was to self-induce brain-damage and beg strangers for sex in public. The fact that anyone ever achieved sexual congress during these dark times is a remarkable testament to man's will to survive.
Simon Rich
#69. Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
Edward H. Harriman
#70. Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
John Barth
#71. Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.
Allan Bloom
#72. A man's spirit will endure sickness, but p a crushed spirit who can bear?
Anonymous
#73. Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
Benjamin Whichcote
#74. I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
Jack Vance
#75. What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?
Leonard Nimoy
#76. The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
#77. A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.
Leonard Gross
#79. It is often said that it's a man's world! We must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.
Frederick Soddy
#81. 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
#82. Any man's measure is determined by what he will do when he is faced with his own deep need. Not how high he may reach but how low he may kneel.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#83. Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way.
Charlie Lovett
#84. If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#85. There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.
Albert Camus
#86. If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Joanna Southcott
#88. As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.
Charles Kellogg
#89. The end of all is death and man's life passeth away suddenly as a shadow.
Thomas A Kempis
#90. People say, 'I'm a woman trapped in a man's body' or 'I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,' but I say 'I'm trapped in a body.'
Genesis P-Orridge
#91. Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#92. one man's windchimes are another man's migraine
Marcus Dagan
#93. Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#94. Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#96. I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Anthony Collins
#97. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it.
Terry Pratchett
#99. The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
William Blake
#100. The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
Betty Grable