Young Man Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.59, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cat, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 30, 2015

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• You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Men, Grace

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.399, Macmillan

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• That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Hair, Long

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mother, Father, Eye

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.356, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Yesterday, Giving

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

  John Logan

  Art, Philosophy, Drama

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books

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• Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Girl, Famous Love

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Leisure, Kitties

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.848, Google Publishing

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• LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Desire, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.135

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• Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above―that's where you lived―and then there's London Below―the Underside―inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Good Night, Men, Two

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, War, Believe

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• Goodbye Norma Jean From the young man in the 22nd row Who sees you as something more than sexual More than just our Marilyn Monroe

  Elton John

  Goodbye, Men, Young

  Song: Candle In The Wind Elton John Bernie Taupin

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