Men Quotes

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

I'm not a lovable man.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.