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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
- Nov 07, 2020
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is what he believes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren't built to be in a cage that long.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We saw 'Swiss Army Man' and fell in love with the Daniels, who are adventurous filmmakers and radical storytellers, pushing the boundaries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, Captain America is the most grounded of the main Marvel superheroes. He is basically just a man, only more so. He doesn't fly across the sky like Iron Man. He isn't from another world like Thor. He doesn't turn into a green monster.
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love.
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- Nov 07, 2020