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Manly Quotes (page 208)

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leon Uris quote: "Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm..."
Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough. Leon Uris
They walked side by side along the dark beach toward Monterey, where the lights hung, necklace above necklace against the hill. The sand dunes crouched along the back of the beach like tired hounds, resting: and the waves gently practiced at striking, and hissed a little. The night was cold and aloof, and its warm life was withdrawn, so that it was full of bitter warnings to man that he is alone in the world, and alone among his fellows; that he has no comfort owing him from anywhere. John Steinbeck
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him. Mahatma Gandhi
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its..."
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. Friedrich Nietzsche
Noel Coward quote: "A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming..."
A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where. Noel Coward
Salman Rushdie quote: "they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man..."
they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart. Salman Rushdie
I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive. Neil Gaiman
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236) Victor Hugo
What we see, we seeand seeing is changingthe light that shrivels a mountainand leaves a man alive. Heartbeat of the pulsarheart sweating through my body. The radio impulsepouring in from Taurus I am bombarded yet I stand. I have been standing all my life in thedirect path of a battery of signalsthe most accurately transmitted mostuntranslatable language of the universe. I am a galactic cloud so deep so invo-luted that a light wave could take 15years to travel through me And... Adrienne Rich
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are..."
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. Jean-Paul Sartre
Leo Rosten quote: "Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man..."
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. Leo Rosten
Demosthenes quote: "Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man..."
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also beleives to be true. Demosthenes
Albert Camus quote: "Art and revolt will die only with the last man."
Art and revolt will die only with the last man. Albert Camus
Louisa May Alcott quote: "[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the..."
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. Louisa May Alcott

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