The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.
If you're someone who doesn't have Muslim friends, and your only experience of Islam is what you see on the news - the angry man with a beard doing or saying something terrible - then you may inadvertently associate that with Islam and think that is what it's all about.
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.
