- Behaves
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
- Explanation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
- Foam
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn't tell Donald Trump, 'You need to fire your barber. I'm sorry. I ain't feeling you, man. You're fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Solomon Creed' is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
- Nov 07, 2020