Quotes About Man

A stupid man is a very dangerous man, she thought.

I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?

There's nothing more annoying than a man ordering wine at a bar when you're not eating.

Comanches came from? An hour later Lt. Edwards brought a man into Captain Harding's office. He was short, stocky and looked tough as saddle leather. He had a full beard

But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.

It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife. I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that. Even brothers and sisters from the same womb disagree; how much more two strangers. No, you may quarrel, but let it not end in fighting.

I try not to be religious. That sounds stuck-up. Like you just follow rules. I read somebody once who said religion is man's way to God. We make a list to follow that makes us good people in our own eyes, but we don't take into account what God wants.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

I think Mitt Romney is a good man.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Perhaps it frightens you as you walk by, the travail of the trees against the dark crouched house, the weak tipsy light in the window, the man sitting on the porch, menacing weariness riding his flesh like despair.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage

The greater a man's fear, the greater his potential courage.

Finally one of his buddies asks what happened with the nurse, why so hot for combat, and the guy says, 'All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

To Jacky and Harriet he explained, "Ghosts from upriver get snagged here, God knows why, like leaves caught by a drain, and when a whole lot of 'em clump up, they make a sort of man, something very like a man, good enough to talk and naturally good at handling ghosts. It's never what you'd call a particular person—it's Nobody, in that way. And it lives on the smell of fresh blood, like they say jungle plants live on just smells in the air.

I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.

You need some ambition. What big ambition did you have, apart from wantin to be a hero? Nothin. I just wanted to be a good man. That's all I want.