Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

Sophie's World

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

Team Of One: We Believe

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

This Side of Brightness

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

One Man's Meat

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

The Old Man and the Sea

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

Pushing to the Front

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

The Pursuit of God

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

The Pursuit of God

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.

Pensées

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

The Prince of Tides

Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

Passion Unleashed

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Tempest-Tost

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and , of course.

The Undrowned Child