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Quotes About Man

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
~ John Major
Time is the great art of man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
~ Edmund Burke
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
~ Oscar Wilde
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
~ Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.
~ Shawn Lukas
Art is man's nature nature is God's art.
~ P. J. Bailey
in Malibu on weekends. She hadn't really been looking for a man in the past eleven years. She had accepted her single state after the divorce and made her peace with it. She really didn't want to be with a man unless she loved him. But at times the companionship of a man was
~ Danielle Steel
Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20
~ Darren Shan
Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods.
~ Darren Shan
Juni only laughs with mad delight at the threat, then waves mockingly. "Run, run as fast as you can, but I'll catch you, little ginger-haired man.
~ Darren Shan
He's cute, I said. Uh-huh, the grey man agreed, and so's dynamite.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Your playmates sent him?" I asked, nodding at the dead man. "I only talked to him with this," he said, patting the automatic on the bed, "but I reckon they did." "How did it happen?" "It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.
~ Dashiell Hammett
he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle—
~ Dashiell Hammett
Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land's captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. "Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?" wondered Mack. "Well," Alf answered, "we are." "True," Mack said.
~ Dave Barry
I learned this from a show called Captain Video, featuring a man named, oddly, Captain Video
~ Dave Barry
And it ain't a man, thought Slank.
~ Dave Barry
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
~ Dave Eggers
Four had never met this man, and did not think himself capable of prophecy, but in a instant he knew Nine was an agent of chaos and would make the difficult work ahead far more so.
~ Dave Eggers
No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry.
~ Dave Eggers
Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.
~ David Adams Richards
What was?' said Dad. She crinkled her face up, like she was embarrassed. 'Well,' she said. 'I was lying here last night, tossing and turning. Kept getting up to look at her. Kept dropping off to sleep. And the strangest of dreams …' 'And … ?' said Dad. 'And I saw this man, that's all. Another dream, though
~ David Almond