Top 100 Man Like Quotes
#1. Love was a desperate thing, fierce and ferocious, capable of consuming a man like invisible fire
Judith McNaught
#2. Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
Bram Stoker
#3. What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,
Mo Yan
#4. She wanted to ride him, to feel all that strength pulsing beneath her, but the most primitive part of her brain knew that this first time, he was going to be on top. A man like Declan was dominant to his core.
Katie Reus
#6. But how a man like you, who looks so wise
And wears a moustache of such splendid size,
Can be so foolish as to ...
Moliere
#7. Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
#8. Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#9. figure out if he knew her from somewhere. But he didn't, she was sure, unless it was just in passing at the mall. She would have remembered a man like him. For a long, long time. And then she would have dreamed about him. A lot. Probably without clothes. On either of them.
Elizabeth Bevarly
#10. A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.
David Mitchell
#11. A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.
Peter Hedges
#12. I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.
Jon Ronson
#13. Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack ... taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.
Jay Heinrichs
#15. Phoebe tapped the toe of her sneaker against the dock. "There's only one good use for a man like Heath Champion."
"Here we go again," Molly muttered.
Phoebe's lip curled. "Target practice.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#16. Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
William Shakespeare
#17. Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. A man like that is someone to go out with - once - twice - three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?
Tennessee Williams
#19. Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.
Albert Einstein
#20. It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'
Dan Quisenberry
#21. But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.
Russell Banks
#22. She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.
Alice Hoffman
#23. Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.
Oakley Hall
#24. Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?
Red Buttons
#25. Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
William Arthur Ward
#26. It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.
Herman Melville
#27. Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything's fine. And it is - until the taste runs out. Then she'll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back.
Robert Burton Robinson
#28. A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo'.
Jose Saramago
#29. The complexities of life can never be untangled by man; like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.
Felix Wantang
#30. Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
Margaret Way
#31. He is a man like any other ... he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident of his fate.
John Williams
#32. Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.
David Joy
#33. Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.
Vicki Pettersson
#34. Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
#35. The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
George Clinton
#36. But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.
Sarah Addison Allen
#37. Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Heraclitus
#38. A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where.
Noel Coward
#39. O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.
Graham Greene
#40. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
William Wordsworth
#41. So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
Emma Stone
#42. That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.
H.G.Wells
#43. The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
H.G.Wells
#45. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.
Nicola Yoon
#46. Because the game was the world's natural state. Because the game was war, it always was, and when wasn't there a war on, somewhere, to keep a man like Richards in good employ?
Justin Cronin
#47. He didn't know why she was there, didn't know why she kept coming back, didn't know, she could have a good man like Haines, why she left Haines's house and ended her night in Cal's bed. And he didn't care. She was there.
Kristen Ashley
#48. Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.
Qur'an
#49. Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert
#50. I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.
Chloe Sevigny
#51. An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.
William Stanley Jevons
#52. So, thought Peace, there was a wall around his heart and she wondered whether she should hoist up her skirt and scale that wall, but she knew she didn't have the right shoes on for that sort of climb because hers were too sensible for a man like Drake.
Sarah Winman
#53. She needed a man like she needed a dragon in her life.
Mina Khan
#54. Yet Wallace and other segregationists created an inflamed environment in which a confused but also ambitious man like Ray could think it was permissible, perhaps even noble, to murder King. The signals Ray was picking up enabled him to believe that society would smile on his crime. What
Hampton Sides
#55. It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
Jack Kirby
#56. And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like
yourself. But it takes time.
Jojo Moyes
#57. I went to the bathroom and masturbated - hard to kill a man like that with a Bomb?
Charles Bukowski
#58. After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
- Saphira
Christopher Paolini
#59. It would be too easy to become infatuated with a man like him, and also decidedly unwise considering the female debris left in his wake.
Tiffany Snow
#60. Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
Matthew Arnold
#61. I'm a planner. I like to know what's coming, that way I can figure out a way to deal with it."
He shot her a wink. "I wasna planned, and you handled that situation well."
It was a fact, but then again, who could ever prepare for a man like Dmitri?
Donna Grant
#62. A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.
George R R Martin
#63. Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.
Jonathan Kozol
#64. I hesitated. You can't hesitate with a man like Jake.
Samantha Towle
#65. Woman on this goddamned earth wants a man like that to feel like that about them and you had it and you fuckin' tossed it away like it was garbage.
Kristen Ashley
#66. Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?"
I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun.
"Marc Antony," I said, "how does such a big man like you have such a little brain?
Kristiana Gregory
#67. What would it be like to be caught in the emotional crosshairs of a man like Luke Almeida? To belong to him, body and soul? The prospect warmed her some. Scared her more. With Luke, she suspected there would be no half measures.
Kate Meader
#68. A life lived as variously as Roger's, and evoked in writing as powerful as his, means that even after death his influence continues to flow outwards. Green Man-like, he appears in unexpected places, speaking in leaves.
Robert Macfarlane
#69. A man like that fucks like he rides. With intimidation, recklessness, and unharnessed energy. He's powered by adrenaline and takes what he wants without care.
Pam Godwin
#70. A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.
Lois Greiman
#71. I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.
Kenneth Rogoff
#72. Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#73. Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Albert Claude
#75. It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.
Thomas Merton
#76. How can a young man like to wear a beard?
Dodie Smith
#77. Darkness, terrible cold darkness, the salty depths of the deepest oceans where no light warmed the rocks and the weight of the black water would crush a man like a grape.
Chris Wooding
#79. I decorated this man like decorating a Christmas tree. His voice spoke jingles of love and his eyes shone like fake lights every time we made love.
Elise Icten
#81. If you were mine," he murmured low under his breath, "I would walk through the fires of hell itself to keep you away from a man like me.
Lara Adrian
#82. Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.
Donald Miller
#83. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
#84. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.
Stephane Mallarme
#85. Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
Joseph Addison
#86. Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#87. the only reason to kick a man like him out of bed would be to fuck him on the floor.
K. Bromberg
#88. If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.
Wallace Stevens
#89. A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?
Honore De Balzac
#90. Her biggest goal in life was to have a happy family despite her shortcomings. Now all she wanted was to get as far away as possible. A man like Jack didn't deserve anything she had to offer, no matter how little and insignificant.
Madison Barlow
#91. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.
Meg Cabot
#92. I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Ike Turner
#93. Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.
Herman Melville
#94. And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
Bret Harte
#95. A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
Marisa Tomei
#96. I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.
J.M. August
#97. You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."
Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.
Pamela Clare
#98. Girls who fall for game do so because they never had a real man like their father to show them different.
Lexxi
#99. So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#100. She had prayed for someone else, anyone else but Den. She'd been hoping for a nice, quiet man like Papa. Instead, the gods had sent her the man who'd scorched the world.
C.L. Wilson
