Book Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“The Bible insists that man started at the heights, at the zenith point with creation, a companion of God himself, and has fallen so…

— Patrick Davis

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like…

— George R.R. Martin

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I…

— Marlo Thomas

“The 21st century has certainly seen the rape of women in wartime, but it has long been treated as an atrocious war crime, which…

— Steven Pinker

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man,

— Jack Levine

“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender his aberration;…

— J.D. Salinger

...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts…

— John Cassian

“He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth filled him…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your…

— William Shakespeare

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore,…

— Herman Melville

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

— Louis XIV