Man Quotes - page 93

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? (Evelyn Waugh)
Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution. View quote
Charles Mingus
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years! View quote
Cannonball Adderley
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. View quote
Israel Zangwill
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality. View quote
Indira Gandhi
Let others probe the mystery if they can. Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will - The right thing happens to the happy man. View quote
Theodore Roethke
I live, like every real man, in my work. View quote
Max Frisch
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. View quote
Harry S. Truman
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. View quote
Judy Garland
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it. (James Agate)
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. Live well, my son. View quote
David Gerrold
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun. View quote
David Graeber
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man. View quote
David Zindell
The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god. View quote
David Zindell
A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder? View quote
David Zindell
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion. View quote
John Adams
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions. (Thomas Jefferson)
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. it shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man. View quote
Thomas Jefferson