Quotes about man

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“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man / just a mortal with potential of a superman / I'm living on.”

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

“There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.”

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”

“You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.”

“A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.”

“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”

“The future's another country, man… And I still ain't got a passport.”

“According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”

“He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.”

“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said….. "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.”

“What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?”

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”

“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”

“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”

“No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.”

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

“I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.”

“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

“I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

“I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.”
“From all indications, you’ve acquired enough for ten men.”

“No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.”

“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”

“MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you”

“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”

“This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

“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.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.”

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.”

“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

“Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.”

“There is no God.
But it does not matter.
Man is enough.”

“But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.”

“The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.”

“Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?”

“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”

“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”

“… he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”

“Because you know, I’m your best friend, but you’re just not that badass, man.”

“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”

“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”

“I love not man the less, but nature more”

“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”

“I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

“A man can suffocate on courtesy.”

“To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.”

“Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.”

“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be… enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

“How many roads must a man walk down?”

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“Hello, Doctor. It's your man.”

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

“I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.”

“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”

“You really are a scary man, no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.”

“So yo then man what's your story?”

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

“Christianity is the best way to cure gayness—just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.”

“How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.”

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

“A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”

“His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.”

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”

“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”

“You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.”

“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”

“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”

“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”