Man Quote by John Steinbeck Download Open image ““And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.”” — John Steinbeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Man Personality Traits
“Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share
“He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“There was something romantic about that, but living with him made his eccentricities curdle into pathologies.” — Matthew Thomas Copy Share Image
“I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There is more than meets the eye with this man – not just confident and wealthy, possessive and gently, controlling and dominant. I could… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you could do… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Man United has always had a unique aura about it, and when you watch them play everyone knows it's something special. — Joel Glazer Copy Share Image
I came to Hollywood to be a movie song-and-dance man just at the time those films were going out of style. — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Well, God be with you,’ she said as she finally left him. ’I’m sure He is,’ he replied. She gave a start. ’Are you… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“A man's life is about keeping rules, breaking them, and making new ones.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
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