Quotes
Quotes about Man
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.
Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind.
I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -Isak Dinesen.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met. . -Dwight Moody.
During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
