Quotes About Man

My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.

Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.