What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

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