Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

The Heretic's Apprentice

I’d be afraid of a man with two shadows, because that man is my clone, and he probably wants to kill me.

How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

Never try to outdrink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Fin or at least a Russian.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

The House of the Dead

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Beauty and the Barbarian

One Man's Dream Is Another Man's Nightmare...It's All About Your Prospective People!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Blue and Gold

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The Basis of Morality

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Clockwork Angel

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

Amber Tamblyn

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were a...

Archibald MacLeish

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his ...

B. R. Ambedkar

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

P. G. Wodehouse

I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.

Cindy Sheehan

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good N...

Dave Thomas

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?' (pause) 'No. Magic possesses them'.

Astaire: The Man, the Dancer

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

The Alloy of Law

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

April Morning