Block Man Quotes

#1. For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Swift

#2. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

George Eliot

#3. The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to block him or oppose him. If you reach out to grip him he will not be there, he will have ridden twenty miles while you are pulling your boots on.

Hilary Mantel

#4. Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. "How could you want one?" My Secret Agent Lover Man said. "There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby," he said.

Francesca Lia Block

#5. What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man. If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.

Gena Showalter

#6. I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax ... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

Plato

#7. Martin Greer Galton had ceased troubling his fellow man in 1964, when a cerebral aneurysm achieved what most of his acquaintances and business associates would have dearly loved to have had a hand in.

Lawrence Block

#8. You'll have to take me to some museums, he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I want to start dating the man that I'm gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I'm gonna be with. I don't play any games. I'm too old for that. I've been there; I've been around the block.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#11. Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

Mark Twain

#12. A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

Samuel Johnson

#13. My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

Lawrence Block

#14. Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

Clifford D. Simak

#15. I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

George Orwell

#16. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

Louis L'Amour

#17. The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

Paul Tournier

#18. I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Doug Collins

#19. Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Lawrence Block

#20. [T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.

Samuel Rutherford

#21. My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

Christopher Titus

#22. I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

Anais Nin

#23. With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Ezra Pound

#24. Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Paul Valery

#25. The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Roland Barthes

#26. Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block.

John Steinbeck

#27. Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor
one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

George MacDonald

#28. A man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block -Nyah

Paulo Coelho

#29. Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

Lawrence Block

#30. I am normal. I belong. I have a friend who can kick ass from a wheelchair. I live independently and get good grades. I'm an excellent lover.
Like I said. I'm awesome. I'm Emmet David Washington. Train Man. The best autistic Blues Brother on the block.

Heidi Cullinan

#31. Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Jonathan Swift

#32. The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.

Stephen King

#33. I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,

Adam Kokesh

#34. No sense in a man with writer's block going to New York.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), whose Egyptian museum in San Jose took up an entire city block. It stressed the virtues of reason and science while also suggesting that ancient Egyptian wisdom would allow its followers to re-lease the hidden powers inherent in man.

George Pendle

#36. I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

Method Man

#37. Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Jim DeMint

#38. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Betty Rollin

#39. You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

Richard Rodriguez

#40. I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

Sid Luckman

#41. Weetzie and My Secret Agent Lover Man and Dirk and Duck and Cherokee and Witch Baby and Slinkster Dog and Go-Go Girl and the puppies Pee Wee, Wee Wee, Teenie Wee, Tiki Tee, and Tee Pee were driving down Hollywood Boulevard on their way to the Tick Tock Tea Room for turkey platters.

Francesca Lia Block

#42. A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

Bill Bonner

#43. Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Thomas Carlyle

#44. The overall affect of the man was just a shade subtler than a sandwich board with the words BETTER THAN YOU written out in big block letters.

William Ritter

#45. Demented is the man who is always clenching his teeth on that solid, immutable block of stone that is the past.

Valeria Luiselli

#46. Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

Henry Allen Ironside

#47. A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view.

Penelope Douglas

#48. He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.

Lawrence Block

#49. She gave him such a look ... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Garrison Keillor

#50. I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship.

Daniel Humm

#51. Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#52. I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

Emily Yoffe

#53. My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

Redman

#54. I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

Barry McGee

#55. There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time. How can i begin to feel - to feel? I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me.

Anais Nin

#56. I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If these great man must have outdoor memorials, let them be in the form of handsome blocks of buildings for the poor

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#57. A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man,

Lawrence Block

#58. It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

James Ramsey Ullman

#59. And since "God shows personal favoritism to no man" (Galatians 2:6), nothing and no one can block my destiny.

Deborah Smith Pegues

#60. Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror

Thabiso Monkoe