Quotes about man

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“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”

“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”

“Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.”

“The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.”

“What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?”

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

“I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.”

“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

“If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.”

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”

“There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.”

“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”

“I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”

“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.”

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”

“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”

“So… I take it that's the man in your life.”

“Man makes plans… and God laughs.”

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”

“To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.”

“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

“The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

“My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

“When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?”

“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”

“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

“I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.”

“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”

“Relationship Principle 1
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.”

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”

“I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)”

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

“I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself — and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?”

“Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.”

“I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.


I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.”

“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”

“I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.”

“In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

“For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.”

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

“The happy man in this life needs friends.”

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

“Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.”

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

“Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.”

“He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

“You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.”

“I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.”

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”

“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma… It's about integrity”

“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”

“To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.”

“A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.”

“There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall down the steps, as that was the sort of thing a man had to do in private.”

“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

“You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.”

“Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”

“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”

“The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”

“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

“Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)”

“The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.”