- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
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- Messenger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
- Bustle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020