- Music
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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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
- Nov 07, 2020
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
- Effectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
- Victory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
- Despises
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
- Sexy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020