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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
- Attending
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- Nov 07, 2020
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with Mike Nichols. First time I worked with Mike Nichols, I just really loved this man.
- Fungus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a suburban man aged 30 to 40, hell is going clothing shopping on a Saturday afternoon. There are about 5,000 other things they would put on the list ahead of clothes shopping.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.
- Stunt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a stunt man for 35 years.
- Goth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
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- Nov 07, 2020