Top 100 A Man Wants Quotes
#1. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.
Robert Jordan
#2. When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.
Joel Townsley Rogers
#3. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Pope Paul VI
#5. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath
#6. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.
Barbra Streisand
#7. If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
Robertson Davies
#8. When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Anthony Trollope
#9. He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
Jess Walter
#10. When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Jules Verne
#12. A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Why do men like a woman to give up control? What is it about the lack of control that men like so much?" "It's not that they like a lack of control. But a man wants a woman who gives herself to him. He wants a woman to melt into his arms, to get aroused from a kiss on the back of her neck,
Lauren Blakely
#14. If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#15. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
David Wong
#16. What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
Louis L'Amour
#17. A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.
Helen Andelin
#18. If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
Habeeb Akande
#19. If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. Never believe a man who says God no longer does miracles, Ben. But never believe a man who says God must do a miracle the way a man wants him to. God is God.
Randy Alcorn
#21. It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
Will Rogers
#22. When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way
Luke Haines
#23. What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
Charles Bukowski
#24. When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.
Julie Burchill
#25. A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.
Pawan Mishra
#26. When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa Gregory
#27. I love men. I also hate men; I wouldn't want to be in a world without them but I have to say, it's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. If a man wants any shot at making his fortune then he'll never sign his name to any piece of paper that he didn't write himself. P 553
Eleanor Catton
#29. In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.
Ron Brackin
#30. If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won't be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.
Mandy Hale
#31. When a man wants you to see his house of pain, he'll open the door and invite you in.
Dannika Dark
#32. We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
Susan B. Anthony
#33. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
#34. Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#35. Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
E.W. Howe
#36. There is a time for wondering what a man wants," said Fror, no fear at all in his. "And there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.
Joe Abercrombie
#37. Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ...
Muhammad Yunus
#38. Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
#39. He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.
George MacDonald
#40. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
Isidore Of Seville
#41. You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?"
"Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes." He shuddered. "For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I'll gladly accompany you.
Lauren Dane
#42. What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.
Mark Twain
#43. When a man wants nothing, it's evil to tempt him with something.
Marty Rubin
#44. Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. Contrary to what most women think, men want a lot more than just sex. A man wants to make a difference in a woman's life and make her happy.
Linda Alfiori
#47. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald Chambers
#48. A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.
Debasish Mridha
#49. If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.
Winslow Homer
#50. When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
George R R Martin
#51. There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue.
Sterling Hayden
#52. A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All i want to know is who's going to ick up all the dirty socks?
Sherman Alexie
#54. If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.
Ayn Rand
#55. A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
Anton Chekhov
#56. And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They're not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they're pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be ...
Gillian Flynn
#57. He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
Alice Hoffman
#58. mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the
Jess Walter
#59. For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.
Lisa Nicole Carson
#60. If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
Soren Kierkegaard
#61. A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.
Karen Abbott
#62. A man wants to pick up a woman. A woman just wants to be swept off her feet.
Jenna Alatari
#63. We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].
Swami Vivekananda
#64. That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliot
#65.
Why yes he thought it ain't a place a man wants to go back to; the place dont even need to be there no more. What aches a man to go back to is what he remembers.
from ... THE MANSION page 106
William Faulkner
#66. A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert Camus
#68. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
Janis Joplin
#69. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
Matt Chandler
#70. The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants ...
Louis L'Amour
#71. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#73. You've only talked like that since you became a horrid what's-his-name. You know what I mean. What do you call a man who wants to embrace the chimney-sweep?" "A saint," said Father Brown. "I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.
Paul Johnson
#75. Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#77. This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac
Cristiane Serruya
#78. She got herself a boyfriend she wants us to meet. He's studying chemistry. A senior. She said that 3 or 4 times on the phone. Senior. Like it's supposed to mean something to me, as long as I been grown. Senior ain't nothing but a year. Young man's distinction.
Ravi Howard
#79. To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.
Sherwood Anderson
#80. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?
Lisa Klein
#81. Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often, and comes to form his window or gateway to the larger cosmos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#82. Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there.
Anonymous
#83. Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me.
- Mason
Kathy Love
#84. The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live
he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.
Oswald Spengler
#85. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...
Virginia Alison
#86. In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren
#87. When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
Stephen King
#88. Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
Warren Christopher
#89. In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer ... or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded
the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]
Chuck Palahniuk
#91. Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in a wife - a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.
Eleanor Brown
#92. Dammit, Laurelyn. You make me the man I am today-the one who loves his wife and wants to be a father. When are you gonna see that you've undone all the damage she caused. You make me...unbroken.
Georgia Cates
#93. The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
#94. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
Dalai Lama XIV
#95. A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...
Susanna Centlivre
#96. Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.
--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#97. Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
Immanuel Kant
#98. A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.
Marlon James
#100. A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
Marlo Thomas
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