Top 1200 Repo Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you're home before two A.M., you're not a man's man.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made harmonies coming up from the deep past, and rising to their height when man appeared, the later teaching man's relations to his Maker, and speaking of loftier harmonies in the eternal future.

The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

In the Story of Reality man does not rescue himself for his own glory. Instead, God rescues man for His glory. Every other story describes what man needs to do to fix himself and save him from whatever else is wrong with the world.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

It's not an idle boast that the British Army is, man for man, probably the best fighting force in the world.

But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.

There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.