A Quotes
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“A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.”
Source: Puritanism and Democracy
“A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
“A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“A man can easily be stupid without being evil, but never, in even the most profound genius, is a man evil without in some way being stupid.”
“A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
“A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else.”
“A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.”
“A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.”
“A man can get killed in there.”
“A man can give meaningful help to others only when he himself is healthy.”
“A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
“A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.”
“A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“A man can have anything, if he is willing to sacrifice. With your birth comes a solemn vow: You will have nothing. Your privilege is the dirt. In the darkness, only ambition will guide you. The oath you swear, the promises you make, they are yours alone. Your freedom will be the wars you wage. Your birthright the losses you suffer. Your entitlement the pain you endure. And when darkness finds you, you will face it alone.”
“A man can have many wives. But he can have only one mother.”
Source: Tajrish
“A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.”
“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“A man can laugh while he suffers.”
“A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.”
Source: The Daybreakers
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
Source: The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
“A man can live life either out of an attitude of yes to life or out of an attitude of no to life. If you live life out of an attitude of no, you become a warrior. You are constantly fighting with life. Then life is just a struggle, a fight and a war, and you are constantly fighting with everybody else.
You are fighting a losing war, because you are bound to lose. One cannot win against the whole. The whole idea is stupid, because the whole is larger than you. But the struggle, the fighting and the constant war appeals to the ego, because saying no is nourishment for the ego. Struggle and fighting strengthens the ego. The ego always wants to say no.
A meditator is not a warrior. He is not fighting with anybody. A meditator becomes a meditator by dropping all fights. He is in love with the whole existence. There is no need to fight.
Love wants to say yes. Yes is nourishment for life. Love and ego are polar opposite. If you say no to strengthen the ego, the less is the possibilility for love. And without love, there is no joy in life. Without love, there is no music in life. Without love, life is an empty desert. One can fight as much as you want, but it becomes self-destructive.
Yes is creativity. Yes means surrender to life. If no means struggle and war, love means surrender to the whole. Love means trusting the whole. Love means trusting that the whole takes care. All that is needed is a trusting heart.
Learn to say yes, learn to be yes, and you will be surprised: life starts growing with such beauty that one cannot imagine it. Life becomes a joy. All that is needed on your part is to open your heart in a ye sto life. Say yes to the sun, to the wind, to animals, to people, to the rain and to the whole.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”
Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition
“A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.”
Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.”
Source: Comstock Lode
“A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.”
Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well
“A man can make money but, money can't make a man.”
“A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.”
“A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.”
“A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.”
Source: Essays on Work and Culture
“A man can never be what does not exist in his mind.”
“A man can never fill the longing for my one true God.”
Source: The Pharaoh's Daughter
“A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books or too much ammunition” – Rudyard Kipling”
Source: Hill 119: Defending a Reconnaissance Marines’ OP, Vietnam, 1969–70
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.”
“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.”
“A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.”
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.”
“A man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver.”
“A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as we need it.”
“A man can not carry two great loves in his heart; a woman can do it, but a man can not.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“A man can not return anything except what is full.”
“A man can not think beyond space and time, it is his limitations. He can not understand the God dimension.”
“A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.”