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Quotes About Man

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~ Robert Harris
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as bad luck.
~ Robert Heinlein
The Truth is simple but the Way of Man is hard. First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes. Thou art God. Know that and the Way is opened. I love you. Thou art God. -Valentine Michael Smith
~ Robert Heinlein
Have I told you about Christ? Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
~ Robert Holdstock
Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and Biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
~ Robert Jastrow
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
~ Robert Jordan
As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.
~ Robert Jordan
Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.
~ Robert Jordan
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.
~ Robert Jordan
A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it i twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else.
~ Robert Jordan
but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
~ Robert Jordan
Oh, how long were the days of a man. When he strode upon the broken land. He sailed as far as a man could steer. And he never wished to lose his fear. For the fear of man is a thing untold. It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold! Don't let fear make you cease to strive, for that fear it proves you remain alive! I will walk this broken road, and I will carry a heavy load! So come at me with your awful lies, I'm a man of truth and I'll meet your eyes!
~ Robert Jordan
Greed nibbled every man, and strict "rules" could be bent if opportunity walked past and winked suggestively enough. Mat
~ Robert Jordan
Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.
~ Robert Jordan
The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
~ Robert Jordan
His blood on the rocks of Shayol Ghul, washing away the Shadow, sacrifice for man's salvation.
~ Robert Jordan
To choose is our fate. If you have no choice, then you aren't a man at all. You're a puppet…
~ Robert Jordan
Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. A man made do with what he had. Especially when he had no choice.
~ Robert Jordan
He has never been a fool except for a pair of eyes or a pretty ankle, the gray-haired woman said, and that is a failing of every man.
~ Robert Jordan
He was a relieved man; he was an angry man.
~ Robert Ludlum
The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.
~ Robert Musil
Die Wirkung eines großen und ganzen Mannes ist wie die der Schönheit: sie verträgt so wenig eine Leugnung, wie man einen Ballon anbohren darf oder einer Statue einen Hut auf den Kopf setzen.
~ Robert Musil