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Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field.
Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.
We in the 25th hour, It's now or never. We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever. In the end, time waits for no man... What's your plan?
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!