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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
- Nov 07, 2020
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
- Clock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
- Nov 07, 2020