Man Quotes

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

~ John Raese

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

~ Tiberius

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

~ John D. Macdonald

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

~ John Wycliffe

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

~ Alvin Toffler

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

~ J. B. Priestley

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

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

~ J. F. Powers

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

~ Rosa Parks

A man's home is his wife's castle.

~ Alexander Chase

A man's house is his castle.

~ James Otis

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

~ Christopher Columbus

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

~ Wole Soyinka

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

~ Marlene Dietrich

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

~ Norman Douglas

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

~ Angie Stone

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

~ Michael Crawford

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

~ Lebron James

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

~ E. W. Howe

The strong man is strongest when alone.

~ Friedrich Schiller

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

~ Demetri Martin

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

~ Edward Abbey

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

~ Toussaint Louverture

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

~ Novak Djokovic

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

~ Herbert Hoover

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

~ Dennis Brown

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

~ Charles Bukowski

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

~ Menander

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

~ Martin Heidegger

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

~ W. H. Davies

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

~ John Mccarthy

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

~ Paul Tillich

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

~ Chief Seattle

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

~ Paul Valéry

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

~ Samuel Johnson

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

~ Henry David Thoreau