Quotes About Man

nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.

Good man, Thorne, thought Adams.

You want my advice! Kiss the Devil, eat the worm. -- Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade

Every man is his own Mephistopheles, don't you think? If I hadn't come along you'd have made a bargain with some other power. And you would have had your fortune, and your women, and your strawberries. All those torments I've made you suffer.

But gold was not what piqued his interest. It was too heavy and too risky for one man to dispose of.

LATE IN THE MORNING, A MAN DROVE AN OLD WAGON, hitched to a pair of mules

You've lost track of the man inside in your restless need to create things, to amass stuff, to have power. It is the disease of desire, my friend. And it has rotted your soul to the very core

No, I had no dollars. The man struggled spider-legged away through the rain, leaving me struck by the illogic of things

Alas, the day comes of the most contemptible man who can no longer condemn himself.... Then the earth will have grown small, and upon it shall hop the Last Man who makes all things small; his kind is inexterminable, like the ground flea. The last man lives longest.

You might say that the scientist is nothing more than a glorified accident-investigator. And the accident-investigator is himself the product of accident. But man is more deeply moved by meaning than by accident.

How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural. Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.

The man's posture said that he did not enjoy taking orders, and the insolence in his eyes was not slave insolence, an impotent pose, but a hard fact.

Blake's face distorted in surprise and worry, that of a man stumbling into a kingdom of hornets.

Hey, man! Hey, hold up a minute! Like many New Yorkers, he had a crackhead alert system and turned, steeling himself.

agape as a divine love operating in the heart of man. A selfless love, an incandescent love, the highest there

Bottom line: A man has a mind to place an ad and possesses the means, you run the ad. Save the censorship for the front page.

The man with the handlebar mustache had a scar that dug from his lip to the middle of his cheek, as if he'd wriggled free from a fisherman's hook.

Do we judge a man by the weight of the envelope-or whom he gives it to?

The watchers below pulled their breath in all at once. The air suddenly felt shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines.

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Es importante señalar que el tan elástico argumento de la naturaleza puede estirarse en cualquier sentido y que el hombre lo emplea para defender las causas más contradictorias y los mayores desatinos... cuando le conviene.

The mark of man is tragedy and the world must know this.