Quotes About Man

DONKEYMAN: S'pose there's a gel mixed up in it someplace, ain't there? SMITTY: What makes you think so? DONKEYMAN: Always is when a man lets music bother 'im. ["The Moon of the Caribees"]

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

To explore the mind of man is to know the face of damnation and salvation both—to know them in the only way we can know them, a human way, just as we know light and good and evil and the falling silver rain.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.

Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.

There was an old pile of clothes in front of him that turned out to be a man drinking beer.

There is something that lessens the horror of a crime when one sees the criminal—who has been depicted as a monster—is just like any other man.

Metaphor is even built into the basic structure of creation. DNA is a code. A code is a kind of language. DNA expresses an idea—the idea of a man and a woman together—and brings it into being as you or me.

Creation is a fractal: it is metaphors all the way down. The three-part Logos creates man, man creates metaphors for reality, reality is a metaphor for the Logos.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.

Man is simply man, and there's nothing that can be done with him. There is no evolution. There is one very simple law, the law of the conservation of violence. It's as simple as the law of the conservation of energy. Violence is eternal, no matter what is done to destroy it. It does not disappear or diminish; it can only change shape.

If these the Times, then this must be the Man. [Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

The city was full of everything; it was an inspiring testament to man's ambition and a stark reminder of his animal past.

He man in a sheriff's deputy uniform ran past the corner and tripped on the bat.

Let them abandon the utter fallacy,' he said, 'the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality upon the efforts of all the different forms and different classes of human enterprise, they will increase the well-being of the world.

To think you can make a man richer by putting on a tax is like a man thinking that he can stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle.'71

Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.

There isn't a liquor store in the world that lets you buy on credit. So, if a man walks into a liquor store after dark, it's either because he's got money … or because he doesn't.

And why not?' the merchant replied seriously. 'Why not have doubts? It's nothing but a human and good thing'. 'What?' 'Doubt. Only an evil man, master Geralt, is without it. And no one escapes his destiny'.

Later, it was said the man came from the north, from Ropers Gate.

In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was.

You have captured the whole world, man, you are everywhere. Everywhere you introduce what you call modernity, the era of change, what you call progress. But we want neither you nor your progress here. We do not desire the changes you bring. We do not desire anything you bring.

In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was. Men who did not correspond to this description were not recognised by Queen Calanthe's chambermaids as worthy of sighs and gossip.