- Poetry
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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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- Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreman had annihilated every single one of his opponents to that point, but here was Ali, going to Africa, selling himself as the 'real deal' black man.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.
- Nov 07, 2020