- 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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020