- 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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
- Nov 07, 2020
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
- Animal Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
- Choking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a gay man. It's not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
- Fueled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020