Man Quotes (page 424)

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• best
• manly
• restaurant

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. Roberto Bolano

• hope
• thinking
• manly

Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks, For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks! Kurt Vonnegut

• old
• you me
• manly

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water. Cormac McCarthy

• family
• dog
• question

These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story's done they ask many questions:"What is Man?" they'll ask. Or perhaps: "What is a city?"Or: "What is a war? Clifford D. Simak

• medical
• light
• children

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children? Arthur Conan Doyle

• help
• manly
• helpful

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child. Pythagoras

• manly
• best
• love

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. John Updike

• death
• soul
• music

So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch'd me from the past, And all at once it seem'd at last The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in his was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, onian music measuring out The steps of Time—the shocks of Chance-- The blows of Death. At length my trance Was cancell'd, stricken thro' with doubt. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• love
• revenge
• manly

In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is. Friedrich Nietzsche

• reading
• die
• manly

A READER lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R. R. Martin

• kindness
• question
• training

In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind. George Eliot

• mexican
• manly
• eyes

When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes. Cheryl Strayed

• eyes
• commitment
• manly

In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin; he was proud of his wealth. Ayn Rand

• evening
• logic
• giving time

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another. Isabel Allende

• manly
• women
• together

The whole set of stylizations that are known as "camp" (a word that I was hearing then for the first time) was, in 1926, self-explanatory. Women moved and gesticulated in this way. Homosexuals wished for obvious reasons to copy them. The strange thing about "camp" is that it has been fossilized. The mannerisms have never changed. If I were now to see a woman sitting with her knees clamped together, one hand on her hip and the other lightly touching her back hair, I should think, "Either she... Quentin Crisp