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Quotes About Man

How pointless, harboring romantic fantasies about a man who'd made it abundantly clear that he wasn't interested.
~ Diana Dempsey
Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
~ Diana Palmer
She still loved the man who called himself Malakai Wentforth. She knew that. But that didn't matter, just as it hadn't mattered four years ago. Then, she'd chosen to stay behind. But it didn't mean she wasn't curious. It didn't mean she didn't want to stand at the edge of the cliffs and stretch her face out toward the sea, toward a world she'd never be allowed to know.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Vaugh scowled. Just like his brother to harass a homeless man.
~ Diana Peterfreund
I haven't prescribed the birth control pill yet and I won't be starting today without getting approval from the man of the house.
~ Diane Chamberlain
The whole universe tumbled in what seemed chaos, but he couldn't bring himself to use that word. The man who heard the land heard his own heart as if it were distant space struggling with its solar dust and clattering, its turbulence on a scale he couldn't comprehend.
~ Diane Glancy
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~ Dick Parker
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Herein lies the serpent's deceit. Man knows good and evil, but because he is not the origin, because he acquires this knowledge only at the price of estrangement from the origin, the good and evil that he knows are not the good and evil of God but good and evil against God. They are good and evil of man's own choosing, in opposition to the eternal election of God. In becoming like God man has become a god against God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no truth towards Jesus without truth towards man. Untruthfulness destroys fellowship, but truth cuts false fellowship to pieces and establishes genuine brotherhood.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
From this it follows that the Body of Christ is the place of acceptance, the place of atonement and peace between God and man. God finds man in the Body of Christ, and man finds himself accepted by God in that same body.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.
~ Dietrich von Hildebrand
Her thoughts were in turmoil. He was telling her to be careful? But it was too late. She had just met her dear-departed mother's worst nightmare—an unsuitable man.
~ Dinah McCall
Cum de pot oare animalele, care nu È™tiu ce înseamn? s? fii condamnat la solitudine, s? se joace singure, iar omul nu poate, È™i, dac? încearc? s-o fac?, îl cuprinde curând o neliniÈ™te È™i mai mare?
~ Dino Buzzati
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
~ Diogenes
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
~ Diogenes
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."
~ Diogenes the Cynic
The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.
~ Dion Fortune
No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
~ Djuna Barnes
Man was born damned and innocent from the start, and wretchedly - as he must - on those two themes - whistles his tune.
~ Djuna Barnes