- 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
- Efficacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020