- Nov 07, 2020
Men Quotes
Serious duty and dry humor, side by side.
Quotes about "men" here range from serious to sharply funny — one set addresses military service and daily accountability, while another pushes back on the idea that women should shape themselves around what men expect. For related themes, see Great quotes.
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less men think, the more they talk.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly believe that ESPN has been in the forefront in terms of the diversity in front of the camera and improving the balance between men and women.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.'
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Men can't bear to see women cry.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020