Quotes About Man

the complete man - as unimpressive as he is unimpressed

Here is someone not set up for life's working out poorly, let alone for the impossible. But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy--that is every man's tragedy.

Pensava gli stessi pensieri, inutili per un uomo di non grande talento come lui, se non per Sofocle: la casualità con cui si forma un destino... E come tutto può sembrare accidentale, quando è inevitabile.

Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.

made myself a man whose book was like blinders, but listened like a man for whom listening meant survival

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

Vanda (as Dunayev): When she becomes herself--an individual. Thomas (as Kushemski): you only say that because you yourself are so individual. Vanda (as Dunayev): A man usually says that to a woman whose individuality he is about to undermine.

This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.

The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son . . . and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man" (John 5:22, 27).

His eyes are a little together, but man, are they green.

a God without wrath who took man without sin into a kingdom without righteousness through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together. If you paint over a building there is no more magic to that building. But if it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it — it's so organic.

A voice floats out to him. Her voice. --- Who's there? --- The man you're not afraid of.

You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once.

You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once. --- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike. --- Be thankful then that I am neither.

This champion of self-reliance, the man who made the unemployed work for the dole, has no doubt that families like his deserve a great deal of help from the government.

in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.

The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because he was 'cast out of a garden because of a sin.' He doesn't attribute this anecdote, leaving it a blind item from a source we might not know. He seems nice enough but potentially dangerous.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

She just happens to be my father, young man, and I'd appreciate it of you'd show her a little respect.

And he always has a fantastic body, shown at its best on the cross, which—face it—was practically designed to make a man's stomach and shoulders look good.

North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man.

He led me to the barn, where a Mexican man stood waiting for his turn at the shower. "Whole-aah, Toe-moss," he shouted.

he would have repeatedly encountered irresistible words such as "freedom," "liberty," "tyranny," and the "rights of man." 19 Well before he read any serious history, he garnered and cherished a vocabulary of liberation.