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Quotes About Man

Is it possible to want to divorce a man simply because he doesn't want to be rude about Ginger Spice? I rather fear it might be.
~ Nick Hornby
Thank you,' said Annie. 'Second thing : Juliet is brilliant. Don't lump the music in with the rest of it.' 'Have you been taking any of this in ?' 'Yes. You're a very bad man. You've been a useless father to four of your five children, and a useless husband to every single one of your wives, and a rubbish partner to every single one of your girlfriends? And Juliet is still brilliant.
~ Nick Hornby
Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?
~ Nick Joaquín
One day I saw it: how she looked back at the man that j the business suit who stood across a subway car from her, burning a hole through her with his eyes. Her stare was a challenge.
~ Nicole Krauss
My child, My love and my regret, as you were when I first laid eyes on you, a tiny old man who hadn't the time to brush off his ancient expression, naked and misshapen in the nurse's arms.
~ Nicole Krauss
This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?
~ Nietzsche Fiedrich
There once was a man who said 'God Must think it exceedingly odd     If he finds that this tree     Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad.
~ Nigel Warburton
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
~ Nikola Tesla
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
~ Nikola Tesla
The... development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
~ Nikola Tesla
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!" - The Narrator.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
You should also know that a true woman is more pleased by the pleasure she gives to a man than by the pleasure she takes from him.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Toate lucrurile au devenit cuvinte, toate cuvintele au devenit jocuri muzicale È™i acum ultimul om st? la marginea pustiului È™i descompune muzica în ecuaÈ›ii matematice mute.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Sino a quando esisterà il concetto di Patria, l'uomo si comporterà come un animale selvaggio e spietato.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?' The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.
~ Noah Gordon
The reduction of man to an appurtenance of the machine, a specialized tool of production, might in principle be overcome, rather than enhanced, with the proper development and use of technology, but not under the conditions of autocratic control of production by those who make man an instrument to serve their ends, overlooking his individual purposes
~ Noam Chomsky
In the middle of the dinner, a man seated next to Lavinia put his hand on her leg. She put her cigarette out on his hand. The glittering conversation continued
~ Nora Ephron
The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.
~ Nora Roberts
It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life
~ Nora Roberts
The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.
~ Nora Roberts
Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type. You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man, Penny corrected. Or you're not.
~ Nora Roberts
How about after I'm a hundred percent, we have a hot, torrid affair. It'd be good for my emotional and mental health." "My man would crush you like a bug, skinny boy. It's too bad my sister's only eighteen." "Eighteen's legal." "You go near my baby sis, I'll put you back in this hospital.
~ Nora Roberts