Quotes
Quotes about Man
A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. â¢Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. â¢Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. â¢Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. â¢Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. â¢Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. â¢Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. â¢Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. â¢Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smellsâand he smelled real nice. â¢Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. â¢Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. â¢Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. â¢Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. â¢Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. â¢Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. â¢Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. â¢Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. â¢Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
A man must learn to forgive himself.
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your wayâhow many pleasing things are done for you.
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
