Young Man Quotes - Page 11

• Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

  David Eddings

  Men, Pay, Young

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• Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Ignorance, Men, Intelligent

  Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' speech, www.scotsman.com. October 20, 1946.

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• Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.597, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Hate, Men

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• The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.

  Peter Drucker

  Children, Men, Self

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.10, Routledge

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• It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

  Homer

  Lying, Men, Civilization

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• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...)

  Josh Lanyon

  Writing, Mean, Cat

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• Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

  Jason Mraz

  Weekend, Men, Negativity

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• That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

  David Benioff

  War, Eye, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

  George MacDonald

  Girl, Princess, Sleep

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.649, e-artnow

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• The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

  Peter Grimwade

  Men, Hands, Wish

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mom, Fall, Men

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Dear God,” said Will, looking from Charlotte to Nate and back again. “Is there anything that makes women sillier than the sight of a wounded young man?” Tessa slitted her eyes at him. “You might want to clean the rest of the blood of your face before you continue arguing in that vein.” Will threw his arms up in the air and stalked off. Charlotte looked at Tessa, a half smile curving the side of her mouth. “I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.” Tessa shook her head. “No one manages Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Men, Sight

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• Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Men, Lost

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.54, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he was saying?" "Not a lot of the time, no," Halt said. Crowley shook his head in wonder. "It's just as well he didn't go into the Diplomatic Service. We'd be at war with half a dozen countries by now if he was on the loose." Will drew a deep breath to begin talking. He noticed that both men took an involuntary half step backward and he decided he'd better try to keep it as simple as possible.

  John Flanagan

  Country, War, Simple

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• And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

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• A young man married is a man that's marred.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Men

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Order, Games

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• Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Fashion, Silly

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love You, Men, Hair

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.52, Hayes Barton Press

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• At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Jesus, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.47, Random House

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