A Quotes
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“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A man didn’t have to have a woman in order to feel as real as he could feel, but it was good if he knew a few. Then when the affair went wrong he’d feel what it was like to be truly lonely and crazed, and thus know what he must face, finally, when his own end came.”
“A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”
“A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in.”
“A man dies as often as he loses his friends.”
“A man dies at twenty and it is a great shame. He dies at thirty or forty and he has been taken from us too soon. But if one reaches the age of eighty-three, all the shock eventually begins to flow the other way, even in a murder case. The chief question becomes: How on earth did he survive so long?”
Source: The Great Mistake
“A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.”
“A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.”
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
“A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.”
“A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.”
“A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2
“A man does not ask for glory. He generally asks for a sandwich and is appalled by what follows.”
Source: The Hopelessly Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder
“A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.”
“A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.”
“A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.”
“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.”
“a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries”
“A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.”
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
“A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.”
“A man does not exist until he is drunk.”
“A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.”
“A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction.
You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him”
“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”
“A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
Source: Killosophy
“A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.”
“A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?”
Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist
“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
“A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming.”
Source: The Known World
“A man does not live on bread alone. I need to work in order to eat and to find an outlet for my vital, creative essence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself”
“A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.”
Source: The farthest shore
“A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy”
“A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.”
“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.”
“A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.”
“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”
Source: Persuasion In Modern English
“A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.”
“A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion