Quotes of: Wise-men Keyword

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.

The Fellowship of the Ring

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

A Familiar Rain

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered.

The Farthest Shore

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.

The Farthest Shore

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

Flame and Shadow

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this

Friedkin's Curse: A Werewolf Tale of Terror

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Fatherland

Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.

Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The Gettysburg Address

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

God & Caesar: Christian Faith & Political Action

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

The Goon, Volume 10: Death's Greedy Comeuppance

Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

The Goblins of Eros

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

The Game of Kings

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

The Glass-Blowers

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

The Green Mile

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.

The Gargoyle

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as w...

Gulliver's Travels

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

The Haunted Bookshop