Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

The Old Man and Me

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

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

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

The Old Man and the Sea

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

Postcards from No Man's Land

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

A People's History of the United States

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be.

The Rock

A man who claims to be 32 degrees is one freezing freemason. That man must make love with all the warmth of a shadowy secret.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man

My imagination plus Vibrizzio is not only equal to but also greater than a real man. Why should I settle for second best?

Vibrizzio

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

The Wise Man's Fear

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

The Wise Man's Fear

She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.

The Wise Man's Fear

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

The Wise Man's Fear

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

The Wise Man's Fear

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

The Wise Man's Fear

He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.

The Wise Man's Fear

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

The Wise Man's Fear

Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.

The Wise Man's Fear