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Men Quotes by Diana Gabaldon
- Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
- No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
- Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all…
- Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that…
- The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without…
- It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a…
- Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach…
- Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
- He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a…
- If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving…
- There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs…
- I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I…
- Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I…
- Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie…
- With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious…
- ...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you;…
- Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.
- You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well.…
- ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it…
- Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to…
- One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the…
- I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that…
- Am I a man? To want you so badly that nothing else matters? To see you, and know I would sacrifice honor or family or…
- I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the…
- I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty.…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle