Top 58 Act Like Men Quotes
#1. Women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men are the ones shallow enough to desire an unending stream of beautiful women but really, if a charismatic narcissist beautiful bad boy man actually desires us, seems to choose us, we go to pieces.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#2. This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#3. Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
#4. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
Dee Dee Myers
#5. Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.
James MacDonald
#6. Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
Thomas Watson
#7. You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
Alan Jay Lerner
#9. Then act like men. Stop behaving like dogs crawling on their bellies to lick the boots of a cruel master.
Stephen King
#10. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Helen Rowland
#11. We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.
James MacDonald
#13. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
#14. A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he
should act like a man
Umar
#15. Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#16. It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.
Heraclitus
#17. Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
Baruch Spinoza
#18. I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
Gene Kelly
#19. Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?"
"It's the only way we know how to love.
Andrew Pyper
#20. Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.
Emily Maguire
#21. I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men ... but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.
Bell Hooks
#22. The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.
Markus Zusak
#23. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal
#24. A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.
Cardiss Collins
#25. You know that's not what I mean! I just ... I don't know what to do with men. I get nervous. I make too many jokes. I act like a kid sister instead of their fantasy sex machine.
Victoria Dahl
#26. There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.
Minna Antrim
#28. I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.
Amy Adams
#29. Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz
#30. Women might not like to admit their age, but men don't like to act theirs.
Jill Shalvis
#31. Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.
Josephine Baker
#32. I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.
Robbie Fowler
#33. I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.
Eva Longoria
#34. Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured
word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.
Nora Roberts
#35. When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
Barbara Kingsolver
#36. I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.
Thomas Browne
#37. What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.
Salma Hayek
#38. It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
Marianne Williamson
#40. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
Rita Mae Brown
#41. When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
Simone De Beauvoir
#42. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.
Charles Darwin
#43. Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
Rachel Hunter
#44. To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.
Valerie Solanas
#45. I got this black chick, she don't know how to act
Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap
She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap
You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Jay-Z
#46. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise men, calmly look around us and consider what is best to be done ... Let associations and combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just rights.
Samuel Adams
#47. The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
Nancy Holder
#48. I had stripped naked in front of men. Drunk. In morning's somber brightness I tried to remember why I had done it. Total exposure had seemed like the only way to be seen more clearly, heard, but now it seemed the opposite: a wild act that would define me.
Aspen Matis
#49. Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?
Marcus Aurelius
#50. Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. (As You Like It, Act 3, Sc. 2.)
William Shakespeare
#51. Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
Heraclitus
#52. To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight
Ayn Rand
#53. All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason, then they leave their madness and act like rational beings, but not till then.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#54. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
Alice Walker
#55. Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
Anais Nin
#56. Well then, shall we act like other men? Shall there be no distinction between ourselves and the world?" Yes, a very great one; let men find that we are unlike the common herd, if they look closely.
Seneca.
#57. 'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.
Jared Harris
#58. You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads.
Terry Pratchett
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