Men Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 3

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will…

— John Steinbeck

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased:…

— John Steinbeck

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only…

— John Steinbeck

“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited…

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A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

— John Steinbeck

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in…

— John Steinbeck

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

— John Steinbeck

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not…

— John Steinbeck

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a…

— John Steinbeck

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

— John Steinbeck

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

— John Steinbeck

I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of…

— John Steinbeck

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I…

— John Steinbeck

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world.…

— John Steinbeck

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if…

— John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

— John Steinbeck

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads…

— John Steinbeck

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him…

— John Steinbeck

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men…

— John Steinbeck

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.…

— John Steinbeck

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in…

— John Steinbeck

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that…

— John Steinbeck

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality…

— John Steinbeck

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

— John Steinbeck