Quotes About Man

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.

relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

to seek a quarrel with a man is a bad method of pleasing the woman who loves that man.

Oh, the wickedness of man is very great, said Villefort, since it surpasses the goodness of God.

I never saw a sky so blue. Rhett, it's worth living a man's whole life, if, just once, just one time, he gets to see a sky that blue.

It was too much for the mullah. "It is forbidden to alter the creations of Allah!" he erupted. "If sculpture is enjoined by the Prophet, how much greater an abomination is it to sculpt living flesh? Six-legged camels! Horses with toes! Turbofalcons and three-headed hunting dogs! The production of novelties for the idle rich! And now the idolaters have not shrunk from dabbling in man himself!

As is a rock in the hand of one with evil intentions. It is not the rock that is the problem, but the heart of man.

Are you reading this, human? I hope so. Becuase here is the truth. I am a werewolf. Quod Hominem, genus gerulfos, Warwoof, wehrwulf, wearul, varulv, garwall, garoul, warou, looup-garou. Lycanthrope. We have been known by many names over the centuries and none of them accurate, for we are neither wolf nor man but a breed apart. We have been with you since before the dawn of time.

Holy hell," she said to the empty room. How was she ever going to win an argument with a man that calmed her with orgasms?

Only a man off his trolley would consider riding around in a police car with Homicide. Homicide with psychic hunches.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." —Friedrich

Ernest Hemingway had said, "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.

Ah, Brynn," Vercleese boomed at one tall, extremely thin man with a dreamy air about him and a face dusted with fine white flour. "How's the bread business?" The man pulled himself from whatever reverie gripped him and smiled wanly. "Rising, Sir Vercleese, always rising." Vercleese

But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.

And so we should define a tool in this way: something that is not part of a man's body which makes something that the man wants to do possible or easier.

In the classical liberal order, there was an arbitrary desire to hang the rights of man on a great big invisible sky hook. But whenever you bolt this sky hook into the azure blue, it does not much matter how many extra Kantian bolts you use-the thing simply will not stay up there.

We have to come to grips with the fact that when God became man, that one event altered human history forever. Jesus was not born of a virgin in order to conduct "a short visit" of thirty-three years, after which everything returned to normal. The Incarnation† was the beginning of the great transformation.

Perfectionists want static categories; they want things to be defined and to stay put. They want the kingdom of God to stay here, right where we put it, and they want the kingdom of man to stay right there, on the unbelieving shelf.