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Quotes About Man

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it." The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I was just bathing." "Aren't you the fortunate man. Bathing." "Only a shower.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity, he said to her. You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known
~ Ernest Hemingway
a man doesn't want something reasonable, but practical.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Tom," Ara said. "All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were Impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Now that you have ceased to be careful of yourself I must ask you to be, please. For us and for the ship.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Those damn .357's are hard to get now because draft-dodging FBI's have to use them to hunt down draft-dodgers," the man said. "But a man has to fire a shot sometime or he doesn't know how he is shooting.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are no man like them when they are good, but when they get bad, there's no world which is worse.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went
~ Ernest Hemingway
Fizettél nekem egy pohár sört – mondta az öreg. – Embernyi ember vagy már.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'll kill him though, he said. In all his greatness and his glory. Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
~ Ernest Shackleton
Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
~ Ernst Bloch
Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.
~ Ernst Cassirer
When nature seems to bend to the will of God and man, we call it a miracle. Is it possible that what we define as a miracle is simply the reestablishing of the proper order of creation?
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
How old are you Johnny she asked. Sixteen. And what's that-a boy or a man? He laughed. A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.
~ Esther Forbes