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Quotes About Man

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
~ Octavio Paz
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
~ Ogden Nash
Man is a victim of dope In the incurable form of hope!
~ Ogden Nash
What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.
~ Unknown
Man himself, at the very least, is music, a brave theme that makes music also of its vast accompaniment, its matrix of storms and stars. Man himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things. It is very good to have been man. And so we may go forward together with laughter in our hearts, and peace, thankful for the past, and for our own courage. For we shall make after all a fair conclusion to this brief music that is man.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.
~ Unknown
Zimska jutra su napravljena od ?elika, imaju metana okus i oštre rubove. U srijedu, u sedam ujutro, u sije?nju, vidi se da svijet nije stvoren za ?ovjeka , a posve sigurno ne za njegovu ugodu i zadovoljstvo." str. 117.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It was all pretense with her when she returned his various little signs and signals. How pitiful to be so old one isn't even tempted to flirt any more! How amazing to be so crazy about your own child that being crazy about a man loses all interest and excitement in comparison.
~ Unknown
Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
~ Oliver Cromwell
In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He
~ Oliver Lodge
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
~ Oliver Platt
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
~ Oliver Stone
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.
~ Olivia Manning
He loves to tell that old story of the don who was granted an interview with Napoleon. "No doubt a remarkable fellow," said the don afterwards, "but anyone can see he's not a Cambridge man.
~ Olivia Manning
Rarely does a man wear a suit to a diner in the middle of a workday without politics on his mind.
~ Unknown
That Lafayette was a man of genius is a thought that cannot for a moment be entertained.
~ Unknown
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
~ Omar Sharif
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.
~ Oriana Fallaci
The same day I figured out the way to fight my insanity: ignore it. I taught myself to treat my madness the way you treat a crazy person you meet on the street-you humor him, nod your head, and move on. 'Move on'-these are the key words. Look and learn, I said to myself, a man goes out of his mind. He can leave it behind and move on. He can take that crazy mind of his and put it away, isolate it, and if possible tie it down-just as they do to crazy people themselves.
~ Unknown
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
~ Osamu Dazai
I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.
~ Osamu Dazai
The true substance of love lies in the act of howling words of love with a desperation of a man jumping into the high seas.
~ Osamu Dazai