- Power
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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
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are strong. We are strong because we are used to the pain which comes every month. It forms character. I want to see the man who goes to the Parliament with the belly puffed out. They can't do it.
- Sexy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore pink; it's very powerful. It makes you feel sweet and sexy, also if you are a man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
- Heed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's memory is his private literature.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020