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Quotes About Man

It doesn't matter to me what you did, there are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential. What you've told me hasn't changed the way I think; I'll say again, I would be delegated to be your companion for the rest of your life-but you must think over very carefully whether I am the man for you or not.
~ Laura Esquivel
Human archetypes — the worried man, the chatterbox, the laughing old woman, the conniving youth.
~ Laura Fraser
Quién es? ¿Un hechicero? ¿Un héroe? -Es un hombre muerto -siseó Kirtash.
~ Laura Gallego García
Because as good a cop as he was, as good a man as he was, he could be infuriating. And controlling. And arrogant.
~ Laura Griffin
A man in the massive shadows of the columns of the Museum of Griefs-to-Come.
~ Laura Kasischke
Man, teachers and cops and their part-time jobs. We do the heavy lifting for society, and we still need OT gigs. Nothing ever changes, does it?" Willoughby
~ Laura Lippman
You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?" "Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes." He shuddered. "For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I'll gladly accompany you.
~ Lauren Dane
It wouldn't be easy with this man. He had trouble written all over him. But there was something else too... There was something in his eyes that gave her an absolute surety that he'd be worth the struggle. She expected scientific proof of many things. But sometimes fate was just fate. And he was hers.
~ Lauren Dane
He was, in short, that quintessential Renaissance man, a cosmologist.
~ Laurence Bergreen
his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Faleiro was a brilliant but unstable man who impressed his colleagues with his demonic personality;
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan seemed a remote, imperious figure, authoritarian and arbitrary, a man whose every word was law
~ Laurence Bergreen
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
~ Laurens van der Post
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.
~ Laurens van der Post
Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening." She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.
~ Cees Nooteboom
But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.
~ Celeste Ng
In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
~ Celia Fremlin
In the island the gods are killed, killed like animals. And the man who kills a god becomes a god himself.
~ Cesare Pavese
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
~ Chaim
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
~ Chaim Potok
To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.
~ Charles Baudelaire
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
~ Charles Bukowski