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John Fowles quote: "That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be..."
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. John Fowles
I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon? Charles M. Schulz
But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to... Cormac McCarthy
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things. - "The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things." From "The Puppet-show Man. Hans Christian Andersen
A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher`s stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist`s researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross and every precious thing to poor account. Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this..."
Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Leo Tolstoy
The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us. John Gresham Machen
William Shakespeare quote: "Tempt not a desperate man"
Tempt not a desperate man William Shakespeare
Maxim Gorky quote: "One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole..."
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me that a whole ode from a man . . Maxim Gorky
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is. Terry Prachett
God loves you, they say in the churches, God is everything. People who believe that don't need admiration, they don't need to sleep with a man, they feel safe. But I can't invent a belief. Graham Greene
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. Reinhold Niebuhr
Mitch Albom quote: "the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets."
the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets. Mitch Albom
Abraham Lincoln quote: "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry"
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry Abraham Lincoln
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation."I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it. Larry McMurtry

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