Quotes About Man

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

Samuel Smiles, a nineteenth-century English author, wrote, "It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratification of all his wishes without effort on his part, leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles.

Death is God, I said. Life is Man. The day we are born begins our love affair with death.

When will they fight?" I asked. "Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man's work." I laughed. "I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.

He was irritated that a young man of such singular appearance should not have accepted death nobly, or least resignedly.

Your cousin draws blade as another man draws breath.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan." Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans?

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.

He'd broken the man's bone. And now he should break his fingers and both of his arms and both of his legs as instructed by the drawings. He should do it now, while the man was out. He already had the man's right arm wrapped in towels, bridging the gap between two blocks of wood. He should break it. How would BoneMan know? He hadn't seen any closed- circuit camera.

Then the authorities had blamed another man for his mission and he'd taken a sabbatical, always knowing that he would resume his quest at the right time.

And he is an owl He is an owl, Man tattooed in his armpit Under the broken wing (Stunned by the wall of glare, he fell here) Under the broken wing of huge shadow that twitches across the floor. He is a man in hopeless feathers.

La única religión aceptable para el hombre es la que le enseñará ante todo, a conocer, amar y servir apasionadamente al Universo del cual es el elemento más importante.

What a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. The performances of horse or man so treated would seem to be displays of clumsy gestures rather than of grace and beauty. What we need is that the horse should of his own accord exhibit his finest airs and paces at set signals.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.

There is nothing like a spot of competition to bring out the worst in a man—or the best in a woman.

For I saw no wrath except on man's side, and he forgives that in us, for wrath is nothing but a perversity and an opposition to peace and to love.

I am just a man—a man who was saved by love.

She thought that heartbreak might just give his character the shadows and corners and angles it needed to make it truly interesting. To deepen and shape it. She was sorry she would be the one to help make him truly interesting. But she'd never apologize for falling in love with a man who already was.

She turned as a husky voice behind her said, "They're waiting for you at a table inside." Jim gave her a little push. "In you go, kid; I'm top man around here now.

And then," she finished, "there was the awful sound of a man crying, Honey.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

This was just too improbable, a man who didn't think he deserved a prize.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.