Quotes About Man

Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8

God sometimes uses a man's physical ailments to get his attention so He can speak to him.

Man has no need of divine inspiration, his reason is sufficient unto itself.

Did you interrogate him?" "I prefer to give a man some whiskey, then let him debrief himself.

This was the first time he'd been involved in an intricate plot just to make a man look foolish. Men rarely needed help looking foolish.

Maybe the passing of time had made a monogamous man of Graham.

A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside a woman's there are only longings." Then she tapped the flat bone over my heart and spoke the charge that caused something to flame up in my chest: "Write what's inside here, inside your holy of holies.

A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside a woman's there are only longings.

The birth of a daughter is a loss. Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good.

The words I wrote would not be read by unborn eyes. I would become the forgotten wife of a horrid little man lusting for a son.

A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside women there are only longings.

I takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all.

It takes a pretty special man to take the place to no man at all.

It takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all.

Wish on a star, said a tiny voice in his head from some long-departed day of early childhood: Wish on a star--the cry of pleasure and faith as ancient as the eyes of man.

First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will," he added softly to himself, "for there is something of each in every man.

The man was tall, and wore a dark cloak that fell straight like a robe; his hair, which grew low over his neck, shone with a curious reddish tinge.

But gradually I discovered for myself the truth of the axiom that a man cannot remain indefinitely in a state of active terror. Either the emotion will increase until, at the prompting of more and more dreadful events and apprehensions, he is so overcome by it that he runs away or goes mad; or he will become by slow degrees less agitated and more in possession of himself.

She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.

My grandma taught me a lot of dirty tricks. I know places to dig in a knuckle and make a grown man scream like a little girl.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. —Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626