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Quotes About Man

Summer Stars - 1878-1967 Bend low again, night of summer stars. So near you are, sky of summer stars, So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars, Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl, So near you are, summer stars, So near, strumming, strumming, So lazy and hum-strumming.
~ Carl Sandburg
It was final sour proof of something Harvey had suspected for years: Man, he declared, is but a great mischievous baboon.
~ Carl Zimmer
The aim of sorcerers is to reach a state of total awareness in order to experience all the possibilities of perception available to man. This state of awareness even implies an alternative way of dying.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Self-pity is the real enemy and the source of man's misery. Without a degree of pity for himself, man could not afford to be as self-important as he is. However, once the force of self-importance is engaged, it develops its own momentum. And it is this seemingly independent nature of self-importance which gives it its fake sense of worth.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Therefore, anthropology, the study of man, should be the core of every other discipline. Someday, it will.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Pero usted es el hombre y le toca llevar la iniciativa. Aquello empezaba a adquirir un cariz funesto. —¿ La iniciativa? ¿Yo? —¿ Qué quiere? Algún precio tenía que tener el poder mear de pie.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,' he argued. It's pure biology.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Brilhante discurso - comentou Martín. - Histórico. Cada vez que esse homem fala, a história do pensamento no ocidente realiza uma revolução copernicana.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Am Tisch saß ein Mann mittleren Alters, mittlerer Statur, mittlerer Glatze und mittlerer Mittelkeit.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
De mujeres, y de otros menesteres mundanos, bastante mas que usted. Como nos enseña Freud, la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara, lo cual, bien mirado, no es tan terrible por que el hombre, como nos enseña Perogrullo, obedece por contra al dictado de su aparato genital o digestivo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A middle-aged man, of middling height, middling baldness, and middling middlingness, was sitting at the table.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Como nos ensina Freud,a mulher deseja o contrário daquilo que pensa ou declara,o que,bem vistas as coisas não é assim tão terrível,porque o homem,como nos ensina o Calino, obedece em contrapartida aos ditames do seu aparelho genital ou digestivo.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I pointed to her engagement ring. "I don't know who the idiot is, but I hope he knows he's the luckiest man in the world.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
a principal diferença entre um homem e uma mulher é que um homem põe sempre o estomago à frente do coração. Uma mulher faz sempre o contrário.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The legend says a man named Jesse Elliot was horse racing. He must have had a bet or something, 'cause he shouted to his horse, Take me in a winner or take me to hell! You said a bad word, Michael interrupted. It's OK when you're quoting someone else, silly, Brian argued.
~ Carole Marsh
A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?
~ Carolyn Brown
As Jeffers' prisoners berated themselves for being caught in the diplodocus cage, the man suddenly turned and came back. Once more he gave a chilling, sardonic laugh.
~ Carolyn Keene
There was none of the quiet insolence about this man.
~ Carson McCullers
He going feel like a fool and there don't be no man yet born who can deal with feeling like a damn fool.
~ Caryl Phillips