Quotes About Man

He follows that scent-that hated, enticing, bittersweet scent-to its inevitable conclusion. A man, a man who does not serve. A man who threatens something the hound holds dear. A man who will not be permitted to continue.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

The staring sailorthat shakes his watchthat tells the timeof the poet, the manthat lies in the house of Bedlam.

A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me ---I haven't the book here so I can't quote it exactly, but something about time and space and how 'geography is a thousand times more important to modern man than history'---I always like to feel where I am geographically all the time, on the map,---but maybe that is something else again.

For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people's fun?

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

He's a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box.

If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an "overkiller"—pretty much right from the start.

might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

No plough iron ever cut this-here hill afore, not in the whole time of man,' Henry said.

But Jeptha was so amiably stupid everybody was the smartest man he ever met. It was a worldwide tie.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the race were most happy and most prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

There was an old African proverb Dottie had read one day that said, "After a man eats, he becomes shy." And Dottie thought of that now with Shelly. Shelly was like the man in the proverb; having satisfied her needs, she was ashamed. She had confided more than she had wanted to, and now Dottie was somehow to blame.

people, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Bob Burgess, after the tall man with the tasseled scarf turned down a side

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

Did Wilson suffer a stroke on that day in late April? The evidence strongly suggests he did. It may not have been severe enough to render him unable to attend meetings or to cause him to withdraw from public settings, but that he was physically and mentally a different man after the date seems indisputable. If it was a stroke, it would leave him impaired just when he most needed his strength.

And in the middle is man, the highest and most rational of material beings but also the lowest of the spiritual beings, "the boundary line of things corporeal and incorporeal." Human beings occupy a crucial place in Aquinas's ordered nature. They are the one material being gifted with a soul. They are also the one spiritual being gifted with a mind, meaning an active intelligence ready to take on the challenges the material world offers.

Above all, he seems to have taken from Socrates the notion that man's freedom depends completely on the state of our soul, not on some physical or material condition; and on our capacity to endure adversity and to be indifferent to our outward fate.