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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
In a free society men and women should not be prevented by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be effective.
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul.
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.
Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
We've stood up for the men and women of law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence.
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.
Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.