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Man Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
- When the hearthfire turns to blue, what to do? what to do? run outside, run and hide when his eyes are black as crow? where…
- Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists,…
- You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast…
- I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a…
- Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've…
- There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
- Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
- My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver…
- I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed…
- It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all…
- Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can…
- Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they…
- It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
- No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not…
- It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you…
- Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
- The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the…
- Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to…
- The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
- There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young…
More Man Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle