Men Quotes - Page 490

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

God did His most magnificent work while Adam was asleep. This episode contains and important insight: When man rests, God works.

I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.