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Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.
The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.
A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"
A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.
A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.