Quotes of: Ordinary-men Keyword

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Cold Skin

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2

Discard 2

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Dragonfly in Amber

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

The Da Vinci Code

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

The Duke's Children

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

The Devil Will Come

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

The Demon's Covenant

God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time.

Dead After Dark

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

Dodsworth

Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You're the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.

The Dhammapada

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

The Duke and I

That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure". "Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid.

Demon

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

Dune

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

Darkfall

She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?' 'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.

Drith

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

The Dream Thieves

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

Divergent

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Eat, Pray, Love

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.

Eragon