logo

Quotes About Man

I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -
~ Cassandra Clare
Stephen King is my Maine man.
~ Cat Ellington
He wrestled his focus back to his present dilemma. The two of them standing in a cheap hotel room with nothing to do besides the obvious things a man and woman could do in a room with not much more than bed in it.
~ Cat Johnson
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
~ Cat Stevens
Hunter's already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown man.
~ Catherine Anderson
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
~ Catherine Deneuve
Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.
~ Catherine Fisher
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.
~ Catherine Fisher
His knowledge of his origins was Harry's strength - more than any other man I had ever known. His women were the decorations of his success; no particular woman, it seemed, was essential to him.
~ Catherine Gaskin
Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
A man's voice filled up my head from my jawbone up to the plates of my skull. The most beautiful and saddest voice that ever was... A voice like the whole old world calling up from the bottom of the sea. The man on Madeline Brix's tape was saying he was happy, and he hoped I was happy, too.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
So you don't love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Betty ran to the door in time to see a handsome young man dashing through the rain toward the house beside her daughter, both of them in pants embroidered with sea creatures - blue whales on his yellow pants, pink lobsters on her ill-fitting brick red pants - and matching pastel green cotton sweaters. When did Miranda buy such odd clothes? She imagined the two of them spotting eachother somewhere, kindred spirits, and starting up a conversation about their shared hobby of Extreme Wasp Attire.
~ Cathleen Schine
I'd rather be indebted than be the kind of white man who thinks the world owes him, because to live an ethical life is to be held accountable to history.
~ Cathy Park Hong
As I set my foot upon the path leading to that little brown house, I felt like an impostor. Surely, I had no business here. This was the house of another man. A man I remembered. A person of moral certainty, and some measure of wisdom, whom many called courageous. How could I masquerade as such a one? For I was a fool, a coward, uncertain of everything.
~ Geraldine Brooks
This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Anger burned in him as he went to unload the painter's supplies from his wagon. He had let himself like this man, but he was no different from the rest.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Once he began to speak, the sound of it was so compelling that you focused all your thoughts upon the words, and not upon the man who uttered them. It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.
~ Geraldine Harris
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
~ Gerard Depardieu
It is the blight man was born for,It is Margaret you mourn for.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The child is father to the man.' How can he be? The words are wild. Suck any sense from that who can: 'The child is father to the man.' No; what the poet did write ran, 'The man is father to the child.' 'The child is father to the man!' How can he be? The words are wild!
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins