Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

Restless Spirits

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

The man was great, but no man was great enough to sever a friendship between her and one of her girls. Chicks before dicks, and all that.

Seducing the Bridesmaid

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

Salvage the Bones

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Sarah Canary

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.

Sebastian the Great

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.

The Man with the Compound Eyes

Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make.

A Man After God's Own Heart

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg

I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class.

My Man Jeeves

If man doesn't dream, he has nothing." "A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.

Motion To Kill

Vénérons le chien. Le chien (quel drôle de bête!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.

The Man Who Laughs

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Man's Search for Meaning

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

The Mirror and the Maelstrom

He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Man and Superman

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

A Man for All Seasons

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Nobody's Fool