- 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
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s like the first man to go to the moon, I will be the first man to run under two hours, this is crucial.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
- Good Relationships
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that there is something about an intelligent, strong woman who also needs to be taken care of that will attract a certain kind of man sometimes. And that relationship is interesting on screen. Bad relationships are more interesting than good relationships to watch.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020