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Him Quotes by John Steinbeck
- He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
- A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the…
- He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only…
- The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
- I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
- Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
- Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and…
- Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.
- How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You…
- Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
- But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty…
- Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
- A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's…
- His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his…
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden