Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

Brother Odd

He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

The Babysitter's First Time: Taboo Older Man Younger Woman First Time Erotic Romance

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

...Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman. Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey.

A Bloody Good Secret

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.” ~Sherlock Holmes

The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with...

Chief Seattle

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every na...

Dennis Prager

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

The Ascent of Man

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

All the King's Men

I was crying on the inside, but on the outside, to the casual observer, and to the man who was dying, I was laughing. That man was my father, and I haven’t laughed that hard since his funeral. Ah, but that’s life, no?

Ah, but that's life, no?

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

The Autumn of the Patriarch

A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always wants to see more. A woman understands darkness and shadows

Happy Talk: A Novel

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A History of Western Philosophy

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

The Handmaid's Tale

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

History of Turkey