Quotes about man

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“I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'magain.
I always will be with this man.”

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”

“Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.”

“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.”

“An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”

“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”

“Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.”

“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever”

“Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves”

“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can.”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”

“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.”

“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”

“She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise.
"But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.”

“They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

“I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.”

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.”

“Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.”

“I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.”

“Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

“An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade.”

“The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.”

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart. The heart was just a bloody motor. The head was meant to drive”

“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”

“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”

“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”

“Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.”

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”

“A wise man can be a fool in love.”

“Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.”

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”

“You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?”
“Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?”

“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”

“Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”

“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

“His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.”

“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”

“I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta)
Yeah, right. (Aiden)
Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like an accident. (Leta)”

“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

“… the worst aspect of our time is prejudice… In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”

“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

“Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis.
- Faith”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”

“Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.”

“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”

“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”

“The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.”

“Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.”

“WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE!
Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly”

“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

“A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.”

“She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.”

“I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.”

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”

“All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?”

“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”

“The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.”

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”

“In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.”

“The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion--even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.”

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”