Top 1200 Ordinary Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.

I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

If I am traveling to remote places, I carry an ordinary phone because sometimes there's no option.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.

I am Mafuzzy Man, original man, 100 percent pure, man.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.