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Quotes About Man

God all white too, looking like some stout white man work at the bank.
~ Alice Walker
Quand t'as envie de prier et que l'homme se met devant toi comme si c'était pour lui, envoie-le balader. Pense aux petites fleurs, au vent, à l'eau, à un gros cailloux.
~ Alice Walker
In Canada, Coca-Cola, Turtle Man explains as he fills my glass. In Iran, Pipi Zam Zam.
~ Alison Wearing
As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the Lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradise, my answer to them would be that man has gained far more through Mary than he ever lost through Eve.'
~ Alison Weir
how long before hope begins to eat itself? how many flags must be waved? when does a man let go of his wife's hand in order to hold his child?
~ Alix Olson
I was so sick that I found myself worrying about the future of man's soul, my own in particular.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Man is no form no mighty molecule no just idea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at Heart between breast and belly, that physical place where the Self urges — delicate sensation
~ Allen Ginsberg
A barrel of a man, who would have been bald, were it not for the last wisps of hair carefully shaped into a spun-sugar next, like a Michelin-starred dessert, over the sweaty pink dome of his scalp.
~ Allison Pearson
The glory, it has passed, the great days, they have gone. There is no place in the world now for our kind, not unless we will take it, and take it with much blood. There are those who will do so, but me, I find I love my fellow man too much and I cannot end his life, not even to restore what has been lost. But without great ruthlessness, glory fades and strength is gone.
~ Amanda Grange
What did I fear, and why? — I, to whom the night had been a more familiar face than that of man — I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!
~ Ambrose Bierce
Satana: Vorrei chiedere un unico favore, egli disse. Dio: Di' pure. Mi risulta che sta per essere creato l'uomo. Avrà bisogno di leggi. Miserabile! Tu, destinato ad essere il suo avversario, tu, che dall'alba dell'eternità sei stato riempito d'odio per l'anima sua, tu chiedi il diritto di fargli le leggi? Chiedo perdono; ciò che domando è che gli sia permesso di farsele da solo". E così fu ordinato.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous markmen had them. Nevertheless
~ Ambrose Bierce
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
~ Aminatta Forna
A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …" Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A man so slimy he would have found employment as axle grease.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
~ Joe Abercrombie
the greater a man's power swells, the smaller his good quantities shrivel
~ Joe Abercrombie
A length of wood does not by itself make a man wise, or noble, or powerful, any more than a length of steel does. Power comes from the flesh, my boy, and from the heart, and from the head. From the head most of all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He was naked aside from a cloth tied round his waist. To spare the delicate sensibilities of the ladies present. Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene. A
~ Joe Abercrombie
Respect costs you nothing, and nothing gets a man killed quicker than confidence.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Un hombre que dedica toda su atención a hacer el bien y ninguna a las consecuencias es un hombre peligroso.
~ Joe Abercrombie