Man Quotes
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KingB. B. King One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
James AllenJames Allen Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
John DonneJohn Donne And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Jesus ChristJesus Christ A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
Orson WellesOrson Welles The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I’m just so blessed.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.
George HarrisonGeorge Harrison Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Man cannot survive except through his mind.
Ayn RandAyn Rand What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore