Quotes About Man

But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I'm his ideal.

At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart

contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. 'Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final,' he seemed to say, 'just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.' We were in the

Sometimes when I've felt particularly radiant I've though, why should this be wasted on one man.

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.

He's just a man names Gatsby.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and light —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Let others take up my madness And all that went with it. Without madness what is man But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?

a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.

What, without madness, is a man More than a beast after feeding, A corpse adjourned, the half-alive breeding?

The world belongs to those who don't feel. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of sensibility.

Nascer liberto é a maior grandeza do homem

Todo o homem de hoje, em quem a estatura moral e o relevo intelectual não sejam de pigmeu ou de charro, ama, quando ama, com o amor romântico. O amor romântico é um produto extremo de séculos sobre séculos de influência cristã

To dream, for example, that I'm simultaneously, separately, severally the man and the woman on a stroll that a man and woman are taking along the river. To see myself – at the same time, in the same way, with equal precision and without overlap, being equally but separately integrated into both things – as a conscious ship in a South Sea and a printed page from an old book. How absurd this seems! But everything is absurd, and dreaming least of all.

The cultivation of the imagination is hindered by the cultivation of life. It is the uncommon man who rules.

I have never forgotten that phrase of the biologist, Haeckel, whom I read in the infancy of my intelligence, at that age when one reads scientific publications and arguments against religion. The phrase goes more or less like this: the superior man (a Kant or a Goethe, I think he says) is farther removed from the common man than the common man is from the monkey.

Lo que se agazapa en toda esa obsesión sobre la «inmoralidad» sexual no es ni más ni menos que uno de los más viejos temores sociales del hombre: el miedo al placer.

A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more.