Quotes of: Superior-man Keyword

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

A Man Without a Country

We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-" "He isn't mine. man has eyes that change color with the seasons.

Scent of Magic

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

A Storm of Swords

A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive. 'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.

Shattered Sky

Not that Dr Watson wasn't benign - he was one of the best souls in the Empire - but a man didn't get to be her uncle's right-hand man without a good uppercut and the stamina of a draft horse.

A Study in Silks

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

The Stand

What man can be a real man...if he does not try and help make the world a better place!

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.

Sophie's World

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

Team Of One: We Believe

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.

This Side of Brightness

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

One Man's Meat

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

The Old Man and the Sea

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

Pushing to the Front

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

The Pursuit of God

Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

The Pursuit of God

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast