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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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- Judgment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
- Front Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.
- Be A Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a really big Marvel person. I like Marvel. I am a big fan of the Avengers and Iron Man.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
- Point Of View
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that I can say is that, from my point of view, our manager Arsene Wenger is an unbelievable man off the pitch and as a manager.
- Essayist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.
- Intense
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- Nov 07, 2020