Quotes about man

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“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

“Whether I see the Fae, or whether I’m a man. I believe I’ve laid your mind to rest on the former; shall I relieve it on the latter?” He reached for his belt.
“Oh, please.” I rolled my eyes. “You’re a leftie, Barrons.”
“Touché, Ms. Lane,” he murmured.”

“Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.”
“Every man?”
“Yes,” he answered emphatically.
…
“What is your weakness, Brodick?” she asked.
“You.”

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve.
But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following."
And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.”

“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.”

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

“Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf)
See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)”

“New tastes are like new ideas, young man -- the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”

“He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told.
I decided on the slightly less dangerous path.
I went to retrieve my sister”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”

“A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.”

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!”

“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

“Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.

I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”

“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

“Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.”

“There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.”

“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”

“The Divine light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”

“Every man lives by exchanging.”

“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”

“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”

“Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.”

“It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon.”

“Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.”

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

“…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.”

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race”

“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”

“There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.”

“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”

“Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God”

“I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined”

“Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.”

“(Man in bar) Can you imagine a world without men? (Sylvia) No crime, and lots of happy, fat women.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”

“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“Merry Christmas! the man threatened.”

“Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey”

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”

“By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side."
"I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.”

“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”

“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

“Never bet your money on another man's game.”

“If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.”

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

“If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.”

“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”

“Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.”

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

“He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)”

“A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.”

“Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.”

“Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.”

“I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.”

“Mind the dead man, my dear.”

“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside…”

“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other”

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

“Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that”

“We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. […] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.”

“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is…”

“When God made man she was practicing.”

“And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.”

“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.”

“Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.”

“Alright, macho babe boy, I'm not some little ditz to bat my eyelashes at the buff stud in black leather. Don't try your he-man tactics with me. I'll have you know, in my office, I'm known as the ball-breaker. (Amanda)”

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you”

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”