- Leading Man
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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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- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the only man in the world that has made a career with one word: 'Grrrrreeeat!'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a very fortunate man and have had many wonderful jobs and experiences in my life.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Embryo
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
- Arrested Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020