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Quotes About Man

Like most drunks he thought that if he took longer to think he'd come up with the thoughts of a sober man.
~ Walter Mosley
Hector's smile was the anticipation of another man's pain. Primo
~ Walter Mosley
I like the rules; following them proves to me that I'm a civilized man.
~ Walter Mosley
Roosevelt's election was particularly pleasing to Leahy because he believed "from personal knowledge of the man that he will use his office more directly for the benefit of the United States…. The Country and the Navy undoubtedly face a bad period, but I believe their policies will now be directed by a man whose point of view is wholly American.
~ Walter R. Borneman
That is why development cannot be seen purely as an economic affair, but rather as an overall social process which is dependent upon the outcome of man's efforts to deal with his natural environment.
~ Walter Rodney
That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds onmipotence and onmiscience.
~ Walter Russell
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
~ Walter Scott
Dinna curse him, sir," said the old woman; "I have heard a good man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and maist like to return on the head that sent it.
~ Walter Scott
He is also experienced. Though I don't know Ralph's age, I do know that, like many of our managers, he is over 65. At Berkshire, we look to performance, not to the calendar. Charlie and I, at 71 and 64 respectively, now keep George Foreman's picture on our desks. You can make book that our scorn for a mandatory retirement age will grow stronger every year.
~ Warren Buffett
The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, I found this up him! You know, said Tallow, I really have no response to that.
~ Warren Ellis
We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.
~ Watchman Nee
God's Word tells us that God has spoken of old in many portions and in many ways through His servants concerning His heart's desire and that He loves us. But man did not understand. Therefore, God had to personally come to this world and become a man. This man is Jesus, the Christ, whom we know.
~ Watchman Nee
Only if we completely acknowledge that what man requires today is God's life: the quickening of the spirit: will we then perceive how vain is any work performed by ourselves.
~ Watchman Nee
No miremos al hombre sino sólo a la autoridad de que está revestido. No obedecemos al hombre sino a la autoridad de Dios en ese hombre.
~ Watchman Nee
La obra maestra más grande y gloriosa del hombre es cómo vivir con un propósito».
~ Wayne W. Dyer
It is a good sign when man's higher nature comes forward. A bad sign when his lower nature comes forward.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.
~ Wendell Berry
So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
~ Wendell Berry
You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
~ Wendell Berry
But Christine - fear can turn to love. You'll learn to see, to find the man behind the monster, this... repulsive carcass who seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly... secretly. Oh, Christine.
~ Charles Hart
She caught a whiff of man-scent piss from where Easy had tucked the undershirt next to his dick.
~ Charles Harvey
snarky remarks. It leaves a door open for hope and reconciliation. Sassiness tells a man a woman's heart is still in his hands.
~ Charles Harvey
man was not made to be guilty, sin is not interesting, the only ethics are those which lead man toward the greater things he carries in himself.
~ Charles Kaiser