Man Quotes

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.

~ Ayn Rand

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.)

~ Charles De Leusse

She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the female in her, which no man had ever been. Men were very kind to the person she was, but rather cruel to the female, despising her or ignoring her altogether. Men were awfully kind to Constance Reid or to Lady Chatterley; but not to her womb they weren’t kind. And he took no notice of Constance or of Lady Chatterley; he just softly stroked her loins or her breasts.

~ D.h. Lawrence

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

~ Dmitry Glukhovsky

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

~ Hanif Kureishi

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

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.

~ Steven Magee

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

~ J. Budziszewski

I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!

~ Steven Magee

If you meet a man who deeply believes he knows it all, then you have succeeded in finding a man who's unwise.

~ Hafiz

There is a reason for every blessing that God gives a man.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God saves a man that he may accomplish his purpose.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t.

~ Ayn Rand

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace.

~ Marcel Proust

Girls did that then – knocked themselves out to support some man’s notion of his own genius. What was Gavin doing to help pay the rent? Not much, though she suspected him of dealing pot on the side. Once in a while they even smoked some of that, though not often, because it made Constance cough. It was all very romantic.

~ Margaret Atwood

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

~ Debasish Mridha

Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful, packed, wrestler’s body. The thick black fur at the base of his throat. It was wrong to call him handsome, although all the women did. Really he was almost ugly, but in a stirring, thrilling way that made her shift in her seat as she thought about him.

~ Anne Tyler

... he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlarges his own power of perception, without his knowing even whether he is ever to see her again whom he loves already, although he knows nothing of her, not even her name.

~ Marcel Proust

So, O king, does the present life of man on earth seem to me, in comparison with the time which is unknown to us, as though a sparrow flew swiftly through the hall, coming in by one door and going out by the other, and you, the while, sat at meat with your captains and liegemen, in wintry weather, with a fire burning in your midst and heating the room, the storm raging out of doors and driving snow and rain before it. For the time for which he is within, the bird is sheltered from the storm, but after this short while of calm he flies out again into the cold and is seen no more. Thus the life of man is visible for a moment, but we know not what comes before it or follows after it.

~ Bede

Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

~ Sunday Adelaja

Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master's victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.

~ Robert Jensen

I thought of what my mom had said. You talk like a man. It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

~ Henrietta C. Mears

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

~ Henrietta C. Mears

A man can not return anything except what is full.

~ Davi Oliveira

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

~ Deshwal Sachin

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.

~ John Cheever

There was something about the man that was throwing her right off, and it had everything to do with the boner in his pants.

~ Rosanna Leo

Positively Inspired Man of Purpose, my style is P.I.M.P.'ish.

~ T.f. Hodge

I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.

~ Nnedi Okorafor

A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disrespectful. Man and woman should strive to bring values to the table that are worthy of mutual honor. Mature men won't tolerate nonsense, but baby-boys will.

~ T.f. Hodge

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

~ Gertrude Stein

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

~ Marguerite Young