Quotes About Man

He'd been a good man, but she understood the difference between the kind of love a woman was simply taken over by and the kind she chose in a rational decision.

Under his appreciative gaze, she felt beautiful. Powerful in the way a woman feels when a man looks at her with desire in his eyes.

I got rhythm,I got music,I got my man—Who could ask for anything more?

Nothing shy of a miracle could bring about a match between a woman committed to protecting lives and a man who'd destroyed more than his share.

I believe he's a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a morbid blossoming.

Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man." "Too much effort?" Lani asked. He beamed at her. "Exactly. How pleasant to be understood.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

The work praises the man.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age it is much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others who come after you

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man I am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

Americans will not tolerate wars that can't be explained in simple terms of economics or the White man's destiny.

Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.

It is in this that the public man's ascendance over the crowd consists: he is the man who will have a public death, the man whose death we are sure to be there for, all together, and that is why so long as he lives he will enjoy our interested, anticipatory concern.

A little later, Raimbaut reins his horse in the town square. "Have you seen a knight pass?" "Which? Two have passed and you're the third." "One rushing after the other." "Is it true one isn't a man?" "The second is a woman." "And the first?" "Nothing." "What about you?" "Me? I'm . . . I'm a man." "Thanks be to God!

I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.

The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light."4