- Faith
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
- Criminality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020