Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)