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Quotes About Man

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
~ Ouida
close to the objects of her attachment, the little lovely yellow chickens, surely the prettiest of all new-born things; humiliatingly pretty beside the rough ugliness of new-born man, who piques himself on being lord of all created creatures; God knows why, except that he is slowest in development, and quickest in evil!
~ Ouida
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
~ Ovid
She spoke in accents light and well intrenched. "I wish to say that I have never liked any man better than you. But I expect to!" He must have drawn small comfort from such an answer as that. But he laughed out indomitably: "Don't yu' go betting on any such expectation!
~ Owen Wister
The world doesn't revolve around Tony [Iommi] ,' he said. 'There'll be other guitarists.' He was a good guy, my old man. But this time he was wrong. There were no other guitarists. Not like Tony.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
~ Pablo Casals
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~ Pablo Picasso
Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
~ Pablo Picasso
Nunca una clase conservadora, por simple odio a quien no la trituraba pudiendo hacerlo, ansió tanto la caída de un hombre».
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.
~ Pamela Clare
A man walked in long strides through the darkness toward them. Nothing but a dark silhouette, shadow against shadow, he walked down the alley with the grace of a predator.
~ Pamela Clare
When a man looks into a woman's eyes, lass, he doesna want to see the horrors he has kent written there. He wants to see joy and warmth and some measure of innocence. Tis the natural duty and desire of a man to protect his woman and children from the world's bitterness.
~ Pamela Clare
He had the nervous, self-deprecating air of a man with enough money to have a bad conscience about it. His
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.
~ Paracelsus
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words. — Opus paramirum , I:ix
~ Paracelsus
The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Ora, os sonhos são imagens. Melhor ainda, de uma maneira mais precisa, os sonhos são ao mesmo tempo os pais e senhores das imagens. Sou um homem que as imagens atacam. Faço imagens que saem da noite.
~ Unknown
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
~ Pat Conroy
I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern
~ Pat Frank
A woman is a worthy wight, she serveth a man both day and night, Gil thought, and did not glance at Alys. How did it go on? And yet she hath but care and wo,
~ Unknown
Shall I add a man to my collection?
~ Patricia A. McKillip
You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?" "Mmm," I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?
~ Patricia Briggs