Top 54 Beneath This Man Quotes

#1. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Agnes Smedley

Beneath This Man Quotes #473
#2. A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, and whose eyes are the colour of hunger, doesn't have to explain himself if he walks up to such a man. Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions.

Mark Lawrence

Beneath This Man Quotes #3878
#3. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

Beneath This Man Quotes #6597
#4. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.

Brandon Sanderson

Beneath This Man Quotes #23462
#5. We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

Moliere

Beneath This Man Quotes #54717
#6. A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Laozi

Beneath This Man Quotes #63923
#7. Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there.

Anonymous

Beneath This Man Quotes #69261
#8. His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

A.E. Housman

Beneath This Man Quotes #76687
#9. All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

Bertrand Russell

Beneath This Man Quotes #84823
#10. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.

Kylie Griffin

Beneath This Man Quotes #105855
#11. She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit.

Max Gladstone

Beneath This Man Quotes #106562
#12. A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it.

J.D. Robb

Beneath This Man Quotes #110004
#13. beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.

C.S. Lewis

Beneath This Man Quotes #112503
#14. As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

Beneath This Man Quotes #115246
#15. Bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. Sadly, this was the best idea I'd had in weeks.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Beneath This Man Quotes #116650
#16. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's

Erotic Storm

Beneath This Man Quotes #138147
#17. One of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into the darkness. He was a trombone player in a matching band in a world somewhere else.

Michael Connelly

Beneath This Man Quotes #143504
#18. The situation was primordial. The Man beneath prevailed for a moment over the civilised superstructure, the Draper. He pushed at the pedals with archaic violence. So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.

H.G.Wells

Beneath This Man Quotes #162583
#19. You must marry ugly man," I said. "Very fet." I held my arms out in front of me, indicating a giant belly. "He weeel make you heppy." I heard Mal snort beneath his mask.

Leigh Bardugo

Beneath This Man Quotes #167314
#20. Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

Confucius

Beneath This Man Quotes #169977
#21. A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

Beneath This Man Quotes #175367
#22. Now, temptation had found me, sat beneath the faded wooden awning of an inn on the Silk Road. I cursed my body while I pretended to pray, I cursed it for wanting a man who had probably been sent to kill me.

S.A. Meade

Beneath This Man Quotes #282886
#23. The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

Colley Cibber

Beneath This Man Quotes #304234
#24. What happens when you strip away all the masks a man wears and you find not a face beneath them but nothing at all?

Brent Weeks

Beneath This Man Quotes #342601
#25. He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.

William A. Phillips

Beneath This Man Quotes #374197
#26. Even with all the crazy stuff happening recently, beneath the sorrow and the anger, I was still a red-blooded, twenty-three-year-old woman sitting in front of a man, who may not be a hundred precent human but had to have caused a panty-dropping crisis across the universe.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#27. The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Beneath This Man Quotes #439434
#28. Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

James Rozoff

Beneath This Man Quotes #481227
#29. One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.

George R R Martin

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#30. I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade ... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet ... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

Marquis De Sade

Beneath This Man Quotes #494102
#31. Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the daemon within him,

Various

Beneath This Man Quotes #503579
#32. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

K. Hari Kumar

Beneath This Man Quotes #538839
#33. Every single man hangs by a thread, a bottomless pit can open beneath him any minute, and yet he still goes on thinking up unpleasantnesses for himself and making a mess of his life.

Ivan Turgenev

Beneath This Man Quotes #543795
#34. Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

Lucretius

Beneath This Man Quotes #560159
#35. The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is
a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Mark Twain

Beneath This Man Quotes #567274
#36. Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

Maria Montessori

Beneath This Man Quotes #582634
#37. I'm beneath no man!" she replies harshly. Then, with a mischievous quirk to her mouth, she adds, "At least not without dinner and a drink first.

M. Leighton

Beneath This Man Quotes #584645
#38. Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the
same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Beneath This Man Quotes #587987
#39. I didn't just want Lachlan's muscles, his lips, his endless skills beneath the sheets. I wanted him, every part of him. The dark bits that were hidden away and only hinted at by tattoos. I desired all of him, like a dying man desires one more breath.

Karina Halle

Beneath This Man Quotes #590752
#40. The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit.

George R R Martin

Beneath This Man Quotes #628314
#41. Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.

Stephen King

Beneath This Man Quotes #636673
#42. Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Robert Browning

Beneath This Man Quotes #642266
#43. There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.

Robin Hobb

Beneath This Man Quotes #643311
#44. A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.

Francine Rivers

Beneath This Man Quotes #644702
#45. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Beneath This Man Quotes #668045
#46. There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

F.B. Meyer

Beneath This Man Quotes #668346
#47. But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

Henning Mankell

Beneath This Man Quotes #743055
#48. Man is hidden, well hidden, & this time we must make no mistake about it: this does not mean that he is there beneath a mask, ready to appear ... the situation is more serious: there are no faces underneath the masks, historical man has never been human, & yet no man is alone.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Beneath This Man Quotes #888257
#49. She wanted to ride him, to feel all that strength pulsing beneath her, but the most primitive part of her brain knew that this first time, he was going to be on top. A man like Declan was dominant to his core.

Katie Reus

Beneath This Man Quotes #909400
#50. These words are my mother's,
my father's, my brother's, my lender's, my garbage
man's - the poem runs
like oil on fire
beneath this earth where we know each other.
Witness the black smoke everywhere.

B.J. Ward

Beneath This Man Quotes #971598
#51. Put off this sloth,' the master said, 'for shame!
Sitting on feather-pillows, lying reclined
Beneath the blanket is no way to fame -
Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind,
Leaving on earth no more memorial
Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind

Dante Alighieri

Beneath This Man Quotes #1355101
#52. This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain,' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

Jaime Rush

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#53. She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Lisa Kleypas

Beneath This Man Quotes #1557761
#54. I frowned with disappointment. I'm not sure what I'd expected to see, although a short, dark-haired man standing beneath a floating neon arrow that read BAD GUY HERE would have been nice. A suspect and quick confession wouldn't have been amiss, either. This was a lot harder than in the movies.

Chloe Neill

Beneath This Man Quotes #1842237

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