Quotes
Quotes about Man
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart by Hitler, LBJ, Genghis Khan, Churchill, or Bonaparte?
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.
For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,) With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.
That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.
But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
