Young Man Quotes - Page 12

• well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents

  Dave Pelzer

  Mother, Home, Men

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• The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Men, Way

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Cold Hearted

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.7

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• I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires us old goats too.

  David McCullough

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

  Colin Wilson

  Men, World, Lines

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• Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

  Rudyard Kipling

  Boys, Men, Sorrow

  Rudyard Kipling, S. T. Joshi (2011). “The Mark of the Beast”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Men, Desire

  Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #1”, Vertigo

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• I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Jobs, College

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• Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a man. It is emotionally exciting and morally restful.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Peace, War, Men

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• Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  Gao Xingjian

  Baby, Men, Intelligent

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• ...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Young, Knows

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• A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Thinking, Men

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.174, RH Childrens Books

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Mistake, Smart

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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• Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, People

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.20, Spectra

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• In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Men, Style

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• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

  James Frey

  Running, Fall, Mean

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.83, Penguin

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• So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Games, Naked

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Past, Men, Speak

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• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Dream, Sweet, Men

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