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One Man Quotes (page 21)

George Eliot quote: "One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin..."
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man. George Eliot
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything. Alice Walker
One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution. E. M. Forster
Jane Austen quote: "One cannot know what a man really is bythe end of a fortnight."
One cannot know what a man really is bythe end of a fortnight. Jane Austen
Gene Wolfe quote: "One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand..."
One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply. Gene Wolfe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anatole France quote: "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind..."
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal..."
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. Friedrich Schiller
Richard Russo quote: "One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange..."
One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them. Richard Russo
One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender. Christopher Hitchens
One night i rode home - it was a confession - and i came staggering across the yard and i fell into the rosebush and crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees and i was sick on the floor beside my bed. In the morning I tried to tell him I was sorry, and do you know what he said? 'Why, Tom, you were just jolly'. 'Jolly,' if I did it. A drunken man didn't crawl home. Just Jolly John Steinbeck
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111] Sigmund Freud
Mitch Albom quote: "Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time."
Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. Mitch Albom
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even..."
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."Or else a fool. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. Georg C. Lichtenberg

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