Quotes About Man

It is in the nature of things that the man should be identified with the company in which history finds him.

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

It was just so very surprising that the good-looking, worried man who had just offered her a cup of tea, and was right now working at his computer down the hallway, and who would come running if she called him, and who loved her with all of his strange heart, would in all probability one day kill her.

Here's the thing. You don't know my father. He's a stranger to you. All you see is a grumpy old man. He suppresses his emotions. That's what men of his age do. That's probably why he looks guilty to you.

You're always acting like you're the heroine of one of your own novels. You just fall into the arms of the next man the narrator puts in front of you." "You told me that too!" "Did I?" said Gillian. "That was impolite of me." "I always thought so," said Frances. "I could have been kinder," said Gillian. "I may have been on the spectrum.

Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of that particular man.

The problem was that she wanted to convey strength in all her future interactions with this man, and her soft white body, especially when compared to Masha's Amazonian example, damn her, didn't convey anything much except fifty-two years of good living and a weakness for Lindt chocolate balls.

It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning.

Esther would know who first came up with the idea for the Berlin Wall. Esther would probably be able to give her his date of birth. It would have been a man, of course. Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.

If Jesus was so celebrated when he was born, why are there only stories of him as a baby and a man about to die? Why don't you ever see him as an eight year old? "Or a teenager. With acne, rolling his eyes at everything Mary and Joseph say.

The visit has unveiled the mystery of this man's devastating ambivalence years ago, but she could have done without his but-for-the-grace-of-God relief as he hugged her goodbye.

The visit had unveiled the mystery of this man's devastating ambivalence years ago, but she could have done without his but-for-the-grace-of-God relief as he hugged her goodbye.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.

Who says a scorned man can't feel just as much wrath as a scorned woman?

Every man secretly wishes to die in battle, he just needs a cause to fight for.

Great American Novel" = "doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.