Quotes About Man

Carl pulled up in a green Honda Civic, a surprisingly ugly car, considering how nondescript it was. It looked like the kind of car that a man who sold calendars door-to-door would drive.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.

Of course, society, too, changes and develops in accordance with a certain law, not by man's own will. But the action of law in society is fundamentally different from that of the law of nature.

Pa's voice, from a day long past, whispered a response to Thomas's inner torment. "Son, choices a man makes, and not always does he choose the right. This is why we seek daily the Lord's guidance.

what a grumbling storm she had invoked. And yet it was done. Now he had to be man enough to walk into this storm, and emerge as Almissia's king.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

What's in a man's past doesn't matter nearly as much as what's in his present, and most importantly, what's in his heart. (Kristen)

Refinement. A man who is decorous and mannerly. One who is– (Nora) Boring. (Cat) How so? (Nora) Have you ever been around such men? They're mewling. Fussing over their hair, their cloths. They're more woman than man. (Cat)

Is that a threat? You're but one man against all of us. (Fergus) Aye. I'm one man with a full garrison of troops sitting rather nicely entrenched on my English lands. Trained knights and soldiers ready to march at my command. You touch one hair on Lochlan's head and I can promise you, I'll see every one of you in your grave. (Braden)

The fatal stoop. It's guaranteed to bring a man to his knees. (Kristen) It sounds dangerous. What am I supposed to do, knock him over the head with something? (Serenity)

The solitude became a habit, the habit became the man, and it crushed him into a shadow.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Oscar Wilde had already highlighted this problem in 1892 when depicting a cynic as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

Loneliness is terrible, of course, but being betrayed by the mask of one's fellow man is much worse.

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Your new attitude I cannot discuss. But you must understand me. I did not expect you would take up arms for my people because they are my people, but because you were a man who loved justice.

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?" I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun. "Marc Antony," I said, "how does such a big man like you have such a little brain?

You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

With Hitler you do not feel that you are with a man. You are with a medicine man, a form of spiritual vessel, a demi-deity, or even better, a myth... He is not a man, but a collective. He is not an individual, but a whole nation.

One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion – not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?