Quotes of: Wise-man Keyword

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Deadly Sins

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

Endless Love

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

An Essay on Man

The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.

Eternity's Redemption

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.

The Eye of the World

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

A Game of Thrones

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

The Heretic's Apprentice

I’d be afraid of a man with two shadows, because that man is my clone, and he probably wants to kill me.

How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

Never try to outdrink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Fin or at least a Russian.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

The House of the Dead

Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?

Beauty and the Barbarian

One Man's Dream Is Another Man's Nightmare...It's All About Your Prospective People!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus