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Quotes About Man

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~ Mac Thornberry
Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.
~ Unknown
he was warning the Senate of "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Really, the man was not to be borne. Here she was, doing a good deed by tolerating him, and he had the effrontery to almost insult her outright.
~ Madeline Hunter
An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.
~ Madeline Miller
But I would have the memory be worthy of the man.
~ Madeline Miller
I knew I was a fool. Even if he stayed past that spring to the next, such a man could never be happy closed up on my narrow shores.
~ Madeline Miller
He landed, and the weapons were already lifted, held with a deadly poise that was like no girl, nor no man either. The greatest warrior of his generation.
~ Madeline Miller
He had sat at my hearth showing no hint of anything but charm and smiles. What resolve that must have taken, what vigilant will. But no man is infinite.
~ Madeline Miller
So potent however is the concentrated love of the feminine heart, that although this man, sitting there above her, had just beheld—actually in the flesh—that elusive Mystery which was the cause of Glastonbury's being Glastonbury, it was the girl and not the man who dominated that moment, her exultation, and not his, that held the thunder-flash of that charged air.
~ John Cowper Powys
He chuckled and pulled himself to his feet. "End of session, McGee. Good night and good luck." At the door he turned and said, "I'll have you checked out, of course. Just for the hell of it. I'm a careful and inquisitive man.
~ John D. MacDonald
Guilt is the most merciless disease of man. It stains all the other areas of living. It darkens all skies.
~ John D. MacDonald
Bud edged up next to a young man in a butcher's apron who had a baseball cap on backwards.
~ John Dos Passos
Man, like the vine, supported lives; His strength comes from the embrace he gives.
~ John Dryden
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
~ John Eldredge
The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.
~ John Eldredge
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
~ John Eldredge
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER
~ John Eldredge
There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a Person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system—not even a theological system—but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person.
~ John Eldredge
The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)
~ John Eldredge
No wonder when he steps into the heavens to accept the throne the cry goes up, "Worthy! Worthy! Worthy! Make him king!" This man is so worthy.
~ John Eldredge
In one of the greatest invitations ever offered to man, Christ stood up amid the crowds in Jerusalem and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever
~ John Eldredge
Yes, a man is a dangerous thing. So is a scalpel. It can wound or it can save your life. You don't make it safe by making it dull; you put it in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing.
~ John Eldredge
A man's heart reflects the man . . . Proverbs 27:19
~ John Eldredge