- 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
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
- Colony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020