Quotes by Journalists - Page 123

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.
Lynne McTaggart
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough.
Theodore Dreiser
I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.
Tony Parsons
To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man's feet, this grief has never come. Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and overguessed, vapors and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible outcroppings of self into the realm of spirit - unlike man, the wolf and the wild dog that have come into their fire find the gods in the living flesh, solid to the touch, occupying earth-space and requiring time for the accomplishment of their ends and their existence. No effort of faith is necessary to believe in such a god; no effort of will can possibly induce disbelief in such a god. There is no getting away from it. There it stands, on its two hindlegs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.
Jack London
We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
Gabriel García Márquez
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
Ernest Hemingway
A man got to have a code. - Omar Little
Michael Lewis
In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.
John Katzenbach
He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.
Claire Robertson
I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble.
Philip Caputo
We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.
Susana Fortes
I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.
Robert Jensen
As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
Frank Herbert
And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.
George Orwell
A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.
David Lagercrantz
It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I feel Man would be wise to work at correcting his own mistakes instead of waiting for intervention from on high, and should replace faith in an unknowable divine plan with a well-thought-out scheme of his own.
Mark Hodder
Man had to hang on to his pride.
Robert Ferrigno
But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.
Albert Camus
Know a man by his metaphors.
John Connolly
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
George Orwell
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George Orwell
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
George Orwell
...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
John Geddes
No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.
F. Sionil Jose'
...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
John Geddes
...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...
John Geddes
...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...
John Geddes
I’d think about you and how I didn’t want us to end. It’s complicated…’Max still held her, his thumbs stroking the spot on her wrists where her pulse was thundering away. ‘Uncomplicate it then. Did you miss
Sarra Manning
What? A man who could admit to his feelings? They really do exist!
Jennifer Howard
I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.
Dorothy Koomson
She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.
Lauren Beukes
you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it
Mitch Albom
You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club.
Robert Liparulo
In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.
Rachel Thompson
I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?""You know. Someone you forget."From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.
Mitch Albom
For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.
Ron Suskind
But women- this I will never understand- they are touched by the oddest things
Richard C. Morais
But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.
Dorothy Koomson
I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood, and at this distance, to put into words the longing that shook me. I have forgotten the pain in the neck, but never will I forget the pain in my heart.
H.V. Morton
Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die.
Gayle Forman
I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.
F. Sionil Jose'
Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.
David Pilling
Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.
Mike Bond
My homeland,' says the guest, 'no longer exists. My homeland was Poland, Vienna, this house, the barracks in the city, Galicia, and Chopin. What’s left? Whatever mysterious substance held it all together no longer works. Everything’s come apart. My homeland was a feeling, and that feeling was mortally wounded. When that happens, the only thing to do is go away.
Sándor Márai
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
Christopher Hitchens
All the bees knew Sugar; they carried their feelings for her with them in their genes, they could sense her from more than half a mile away and would no sooner find her a threat than fly to the moon. But Elizabeth the First sensed Grady Parkes from half a mile away too, and her resulting hum was not one of blissful content. It was his smell, partly: an aftershave, with base notes of tobacco and cedar and a hint of bitter herbs, and his natural scent, which was too sour for Elizabeth the First's liking. She registered him as something to watch out for and passed this on through the realm.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.
Paul Berman
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
Albert Camus
Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.
Miguel Syjuco
To be angry implies you care
Miguel Syjuco
Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon
David Grann
Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Renata Adler
That was the main thing wrong with Mrs. Kamal. She spent such an extraordinary amount of mental energy feeling irritated that it was impossible not to feel irritated in turn. It was oxygen to her, this low-grade dissatisfaction, shading into anger; this sense that things weren't being done correctly, that everything from the traffic noise at night to the temperature of the hot water in the morning to the progress of Mohammed's potty training to the fact that Fatima wasn't being taught to read Urdu, only English, to the fact that Rohinka served only two dishes at dinner the night of her arrival to the cost of the car insurance for the VW Sharan to the fact that Shahid didn't have a 'proper job' and seemed to have no intention of getting one, let alone a wife, to the unfriendliness of London, the fact that it was an 'impossible city,' to the ostentatious way she complained about missing Lahore, especially at dinner time, giving meaningful, sad, reproachful looks at the food Rohinka had cooked.
John Lanchester
If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one.But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal.
Paul Krassner
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
Ian Fleming