Quotes About Man

were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...

Had to be here to understand," he had said. He'd meant here in Chicago; but he could also have meant here in my shoes, an older black man who still burns from a lifetime of insults, of foiled ambitions, of ambitions abandoned before they've been tried. I asked myself if I could truly understand that. I assumed, took for granted, that I could. Seeing me, these men had made the same assumption.

We drilled our drinks onto the checkered-tile floor. And for that moment, at least, I felt like the luckiest man alive.

I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.

Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman

that archetype is a closed man.

Both Marty and Smalls knew that in politics, like religion, power lay in certainty—and that one man's certainty always threatened another's.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

No matter what affronts of youthful insolence he had to face in his day, he'd still have that: he was a man taken care of by a woman.

What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past

She sounded like a man, with that deep voice smokers get as their prize for their hundred millionth pack.

To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.

Dellarobia watched the void of this man where once there had been wonder, and she despaired of her future. In such a short time he had relieved her of a lifetime of illusions, and already she missed them.

Scientific laws are not the property of a man. They exist outside of us.

Remy, my third husband, was very devoted. He was an older man. My life has been 101 Calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley. He at least had the decency to die and leave me the Equatorial... the nicest hotel for business men

Murakami liked to fight. Hell, Pride wasn't enough for him. He needed more. And it wasn't the money. Pride, with promotions and pay-per-view, would pay a lot more, to the winners and losers. No. It wasn't the money for this guy. It was the excitement. The proximity to death. The high you can only get from killing a man who's simultaneously doing everything in his power to kill you. I know the sensation. It both fascinates and repulses me.

As a historian I am no longer obsessed with the theological question of how God became a man, but with the historical question of how a man became God.

Tim stared at the steel rod in the gloved hand. Is that a magic wand? The Covenant Man appeared to consider. I suppose so. Although it started life as the gearshift of a Dodge Dart, America's economy car, young Tim. What's America? A kingdom filled with toy-loving idiots. It has no part in our palaver.

I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!" "I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

a tall man of no age in faded, pegged jeans and a denim jacket. His pockets were stuffed with fifty different kinds of conflicting literature—pamphlets for all seasons, rhetoric for all reasons.

Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man.

It occurred to him later that this was when he began to love the boy—which was, of course, what the man in black must have planned all along. Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends.