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Quotes About Man

The sweet indifference of man's environment to his problems. Pathetic fallacy or no, I really felt it, an indifference to us that amounted to contempt.
~ Paul Scott
I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear
~ Paul Simon
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...
~ Paul Simon
Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.
~ Paul Theroux
How many Muslims are there here?' I asked a man in a skullcap. 'Thousands.' 'Have any been to Mecca?' 'One,' he said. 'The government sent him last year.
~ Paul Theroux
His Congo Diary is a powerful account of an idealistic man's campaign to bring change to Africa
~ Paul Theroux
a powerful account of an idealistic man's campaign to bring change to Africa, at a time when I was a schoolteacher in the African bush.
~ Paul Theroux
That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.
~ Paulo Coelho
we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.
~ Paulo Coelho
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
~ Paulo Coelho
I love this man sitting before me now, because I do not possess him and he does not possess me. We are free in our mutual surrender; I need to repeat this dozens, hundreds, millions of times, until I finally believe my own words.
~ Paulo Coelho
All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.
~ Paulo Coelho
It was going to be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really having him.
~ Paulo Coelho
The world is unfathomable and mysterious, just as we all are. The art of the warrior consists of reconciling the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.
~ Paulo Coelho
That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love will never separate a man from his personal legend
~ Paulo Coelho
because a man must choose. Therein lieth his strength: the power of his decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.
~ Pearl Buck
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered.
~ Pearl S. Buck
How can school help you with the land? he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. Learning clears the mind, he said, and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth. Do you know how to read? Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is.
~ Pearl S. Buck