M Quotes
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“Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.”
“Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.”
“Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.”
“Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.”
“Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!”
“Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.”
“Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.”
“Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.”
“Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.”
“Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.”
Source: The Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Sherston's Progress
“Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.”
“Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do.”
“Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.”
“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Source: Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
“Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.”
“Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems
“Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.”
Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
“Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.”
“Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.”
Source: More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
“Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church
“Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.”
“Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.”
“Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.”
“Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.”
Source: Natural Law, Or, The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society : Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime
“Man, not men, is the most important consideration.”
“Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”
Source: Octopus and squid, the soft intelligence
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.”
Source: Schiller: Aesthetic education
“Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.”
“Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.”
“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”
“Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.”
“Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off.... They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.”
“Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.”
“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.”
“Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.”
“Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.”
“Man, sometimes God really sucks.”
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”
“Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.”
“Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.”