Quotes about man

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“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

“… there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”

“.. the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

“Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”

“… while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

“Disinterested love for all living creatures, the most noble attribute of man.”

“My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone…. The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

“A beautiful woman can make herself
look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.”

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering."
"Are you saying that you -"

"Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box.”

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

“I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?”

“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think… of any man as damned.”

“You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.”

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells…”

“Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man."
Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?”

“Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

“Never trust a man in a jumpsuit”

“Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.”

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”

“Michael smiled at me a little. “You’re a good man, Harry. But you’re making the same mistake Nicodemus always has—and the same one Karrin did.” “What mistake?” “You all think the critical word in the phrase ‘Sword of Faith’ is ‘sword.”

“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

“Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.”

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”

“It is far easier for a woman to lead
a blameless life than it is for a man;
all she has to do is to avoid
sexual intercourse like the plague.”

“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”

“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

“And there you have it… if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.”

“If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.”

“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”

“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

“I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.”

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

“A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.”

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.”

“That’s a wonderful story.”

“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you’re certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”

“Fried twinkies? Paris nodded. Only once, I've never forgotten the experience. It's like heaven in your mouth, man.”

“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.”

“There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.”

“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

“My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.”

“Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.”

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”

“The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.”

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

“Any man can turn traitor.”

“A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.”

“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”

“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”

“I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.”

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

“A man without words is a man without thought.”

“I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg”

“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”