Quotes about man

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“Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”

“… a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”

“And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre, which provideth for every man, by Victory or Death.”

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

“Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)”

“You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.”

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”

“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”

“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.”

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms.”

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

“She'd cried loudly enough that the man sitting across from her had offered her a tissue, and she'd screamed, what do you think you're looking at jerk? At him, because that was what you did in New York. After that she felt a little better.”

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”

“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

“I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”

“Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”

“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”

“the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate…”

“Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!”

“I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.”

“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”

“For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”

“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”

“Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”

“I never wished I’d been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”

“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.”

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be.”

“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.”

“Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.”

“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”

“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”

“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”

“Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.”

“Karrin, eh?" Thomas asked.

I nodded. "She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different."

"Isn't she Catholic?" Thomas asked. "Don't they have a guy?”

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.”

“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”

“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”

“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”

“We born dyin'… But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”

“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

“I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.”

“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.”

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.”

“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”

“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”

“Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)”

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

“Now don't you understand man universal law
What you throw out comes back to you, star
Never underestimate those who you scar
Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard”

“There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”

“To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”

“There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come to you as a man unfinished.”

“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”

“Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

“As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

“O Beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain

for strip-mined mountains' majesty, above the asphalt plain

America, America, man sheds his waste on thee

and hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”

“The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.”

“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

“Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”

“Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. "Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? Same as always, no matter who you screw. Although… if you're into sheep, that would be tough. Don't know if I could handle that.”

“Thank you, Shay. (Syn)
For what? (Shahara)
For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love. (Syn)”

“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”

“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

“But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.”

“And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”

“He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?”

“And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”

“‎When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”