Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no g...
Ordell Robbie: [Ordell has bailed Beaumont out of jail] Look at you and your free ass. Come here, boy, gimme a motherfuckin' hug. Beaumont: Good lookin' out, man. I don't know what to say. Thank you, thank you... Ordell Robbie: Uh-huh. Who was there ...
Jack Valentine: Since you're so concerned with the law, you must know that I am legally permitted to hold you for 24 hours without charging you. You might ask why I would do that, and I can assure you it's not because I enjoy your company, because I ...
Willard: [voice-over] On the river, I thought that the minute I looked at him, I'd know what to do, but it didn't happen. I was in there with him for days, not under guard; I was free, but he knew I wasn't going anywhere. He knew more about what I wa...
A man of logic is a man of sin.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
I've always been a proud man.
I like being able to be a man.
One man's constant is another man's variable.
It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.
Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.
Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
Man to woman; man to man in letter words will stand the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time.
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
A real man can use power, rather than let power use him
It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in." "You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said.
During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?
