- 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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
- Nov 07, 2020
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
- God-Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
- Great Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020