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Quotes About Man

Ô grandes attitudes de l'homme et de la femme où cherchent à se joindre, dans l'innocence des premiers jours et avec l'humilité de l'argile, ce que la création a séparé, où Eve est étonnée et soumise devant l'homme au côté de qui elle s'éveille, comme lui-même, encore seul, devant Dieu qui l'a formé.
~ Marcel Proust
Even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work.
~ Marcel Proust
with Bergotte, the embarrassment of the name, laden with its disconcerting preconceptions, was insignificant compared with the chagrin I felt at the prospect of tying this man with his goatee to the work I knew, as though to a balloon, and wondering whether it might still have the power to become airborne.
~ Marcel Proust
in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them;
~ Marcel Proust
But the danger of such liaisons is that, though the subjection of the woman may briefly allay the jealousy of the man, it eventually makes it even more demanding. He reaches the point of treating his mistress like one of those prisoners who are so closely guarded that the light in their cell is never turned off.
~ Marcel Proust
We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.
~ Marco Rubio
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Ernest Hemingway once wrote that "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter." Let
~ Marcus Luttrell
Arms wide and palms empty, hyperconscious of how many weapons were trained on him, Cooper was thinking about all the ways things hadn't gone as planned. It had been a busy month. A busy year. He'd spent half of it undercover, away from his children, hunting the most wanted man in America. But when he'd found John Smith, Cooper
~ Marcus Sakey
It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential
~ Margaret Way
She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.
~ Margaret Way
I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.
~ Margaret Way
Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.
~ Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
A treed cat, a man in love, and the French. God help the fool who tries to rescue any one of them.
~ Margery Allingham
Maria Dahvana Headley
~ Unknown
Sovrana : — Sono solo inutile, non stupida. Il Sovrano invece è inutile e stupido, e perciò è un uomo felice, come voi potete capire... così riesce anche a essere buono, mentre io no: io sono cattiva... molto cattiva...
~ Unknown
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
~ Maria McCann
Happiness makes the heartless man, someone told me when I was a child. We arrived home happy and heartless.
~ Maria McCann
Nature is the master creator in any field. Nature does not ask us to be brilliant, it is enough to be rational. Nature is not man and it is not men's.
~ Unknown
Club, tonight, man, don't you see?" "Please, Anita, coals to Newcastle! Mercy!" "Don't think twice about it, baby. It'll be outrageous, man. I will be your angel from hell. At
~ Marianne Faithfull
Bedizened or starknaked, man, the self, the being we call human,writingmaster to this world.
~ Marianne Moore