Top 100 That Man Quotes
#1. How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation
for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
Soren Kierkegaard
#2. I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
Martial
#3. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
#4. There is no real victory unless it shares the righteousness of that man's heart.
Peter W. Smorynski
#5. Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel.
Karina Halle
#6. Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.
Jay Electronica
#7. It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
Stan Musial
#8. It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#9. God has willed, is now willing, and will never cease willing, that man shall not sin. Sin
C.F.W. Walther
#10. Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
Stephen Baxter
#12. Aegistheus, the kings have another secret ... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. I think that man is conditioned to violence.
Rod Lurie
#14. A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
#15. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
#16. I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly."
"I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper."
"Apparently I am.
Kristin Cashore
#17. If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#19. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#20. I love you." His voice was straightforward, affectionate. "You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I'm yours, if you'll have me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#21. Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Theophrastus
#22. Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of the joys of being married to him. My life full of laughter. Thank God I have him. My life is full of laughter because of that man.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#23. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Eric Hoffer
#24. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#25. hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Death by bush," I whisper.
"What did you say?" Dylan asks confused.
"The last thing that man saw before he almost died was my bush.
Ella Dominguez
#27. That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107)
Jessica Stern
#28. Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
Immanuel Kant
#29. That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Thomas Gibbons
#30. Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan. What tipped off the authorities he might be the bomber? His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan.
Jay Leno
#31. He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be."
"I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.
Ann Simko
#32. It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
John Calvin
#33. I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred De Vigny
#34. That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.
Samuel Willard
#35. That man is ... odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino
Umberto Eco
#36. It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
E.B. White
#37. In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion that man can live "by bread alone" (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3) - a conviction that demeans man and ultimately disregards all that is specifically human.
Pope Benedict XVI
#38. The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had done it deliberately, probably because he wanted something from her.
Julia Quinn
#40. Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.
Blaise Pascal
#41. That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler
#42. Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#43. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
George S. Clason
#44. That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless
Plato
#45. It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
Okakura Kakuzo
#46. I wasn't ever going to play Carnegie Hall, or arenas with the E Street Band, but I did still play - plenty - and had work I liked and was good at. If a man or woman wants more, I often told myself, that man or woman is tempting the gods.
Stephen King
#47. That man tried to picka my frienda's pocketoni!
David Sedaris
#48. We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities ... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin
#49. You will do those great things beside a great man." Mother lifted her chin and started toward the door. "And that man is waiting for you downstairs. I shall send him up to see you now.
Jody Hedlund
#50. Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195
Robert Harris
#51. For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
Robert Burns
#52. It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,
and then we all die so soon.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#54. What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
James Anthony Froude
#55. Go. Do what you have to do. Be the hero that you are ... but come back to me. There's more to Noah McCall than the head of Last Chance Rescue. I see that man. ... I love them both. Return to me, Noah. Please. - Mara to Noah
Christy Reece
#56. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Luther Standing Bear
#57. Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.
Walt Whitman
#58. Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?
Juvenal
#59. Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock
#60. It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
John Portman
#61. Now I know it's because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.
Colleen Hoover
#62. People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
Ernest Gellner
#63. Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
Robert Burns
#64. The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.
John Eccles
#65. Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.
Aeschylus
#66. Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?
Brigham Young
#67. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
Washington Irving
#68. I have changed for the last time
this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.
Sharon Shinn
#70. Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.
Thomas S. Monson
#71. In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
#72. There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to "heal, bless or prosper." What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#73. We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
Charles Spurgeon
#74. The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#75. Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.
Theocritus
#76. Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.
Jostein Gaarder
#77. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Doris Lessing
#78. That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#79. Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.
Ice Cube
#80. You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window.
Cassandra Clare
#81. To be that man, you've got to beat the man. Woooo!
Ric Flair
#82. It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.
Tom DeLay
#83. Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
Saint Augustine
#84. No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
Blaise Pascal
#85. When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#86. Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.
Ayn Rand
#87. It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#88. That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.
Neal Stephenson
#89. If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
Karl Malone
#90. Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
Herbert Spencer
#91. There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.
Patricia Briggs
#92. The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"
Charles Lamb
#93. Bill Brent knew nothing about epistemology; but he knew that man must live by his own rational perception of reality, that he cannot act against it or escape it or find a substitute for it - and that there is no other way for him to live. He
Ayn Rand
#94. Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#95. The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.
Adrian McKinty
#96. More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can't get over that man's stamina. Wish he'd swing my way and wear me out.
Sylvia Day
#97. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."
Wilfred Grenfell
#98. If I just open this window a bit, that man might put his finger
up your bum. Wouldn't that be nice for you?
Richard Rider
#99. The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.
Leif Gregersen
#100. That man has something fucked up on his mind.
Lilly Black
