Top 100 Man There Quotes
#1. Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
William Golding
#2. That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.
Kathryn Le Veque
#3. It's the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.
John Sandford
#4. In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
George Eliot
#5. There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
#6. I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?
Alan Vega
#7. I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
Kid Rock
#8. Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
Hippocrates
#9. Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.
Jordan Klepper
#10. Don't let foolish assumptions about what's appropriate keep you from a good man. There are too few good men around to ignore one just because he's the perfect age for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#11. For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret - the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not it is the innermost chamber.
George MacDonald
#12. Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald
#13. For each man there are different perspectives, but at the core they are the same. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into pursuit of evil.
David Gemmell
#14. I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.
Joe Abercrombie
#15. For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.
Jeffrey Fry
#16. Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
Stefan Kanfer
#17. On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar
#18. Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.
Virginia Woolf
#20. Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Mark Twain
#21. In an honest man there is always something of a child.
Plato
#22. Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
#23. I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
Vivienne Westwood
#24. It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.
Wilhelm Reich
#25. The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
Donald Barthelme
#26. When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, and I don't care man, there's no reason that isn't possible. No reason!
Terry Fox
#27. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
Bobby Fischer
#28. Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#29. For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#31. There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
H.G.Wells
#32. Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#33. The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Where there is a will to conquer a man, there is a way to conquer a man.
Delilah Marvelle
#35. It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
Upton Sinclair
#36. Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.
John Maxwell Taylor
#37. What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt!
Brad McKinniss
#38. We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.
David Hume
#39. What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
Neil Gaiman
#40. Ray: What else did they get rid of, truth, justice and the American way?
Leto jr.: Nah, truth ended when they shot M.L.K.. The American way died over in Vietnam.
Mitch: And Justice?
Leto jr.: Shit, man, there's no justice ... There's just us.
Brian K. Vaughan
#41. In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
Albert Camus
#42. Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
Leo Tolstoy
#43. National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
Adolf Hitler
#44. My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally ... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my tempermentality while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face and shout seen my brown pants?
Sinclair Lewis
#45. In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.
T. B. Joshua
#46. Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.
J.D. Salinger
#47. Man is equal to man. There should not be exploitation. One should help the other. No one should harm anybody. Generally there should be no room for grievance or complaint from anybody. Everyone should live and let others live, with a national spirit.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#48. You can't marry an ungenerous man; there's no joy in his soul.
Maeve Binchy
#49. If you think you're into that, man, there are websites. Start with those before you go to something called Total Domination Tuesdays.
Avon Gale
#50. A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."
Mitch Hedberg
#51. For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
Hippocrates
#52. For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Frantz Fanon
#53. When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
Winston Churchill
#54. If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.
William Faulkner
#56. In every man there is an eye of the soul, which ... is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
Plato
#57. If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.
Doug Stanhope
#58. I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.
Vestal McIntyre
#59. Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh
one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John Locke
#61. Skyler, you are the love of my life, I hope you know that. Walter junior, you're my big man. There are ... there are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.
Walter White
#62. Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
Robert Jordan
#63. Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don't live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
#64. In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford
#65. It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage ... On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
Martin Luther
#66. There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
Alan Moore
#67. But if you are convinced that one mustn't listen at doors, but one may murder old women at one's pleasure, you'd better be off to America and make haste. Run, young man! There may still be time. I'm speaking sincerely. Haven't you the money? I'll give you the fare.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#68. As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.
Justin Townes Earle
#69. In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur Keith
#70. Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.
Norman Geisler
#71. I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.
Brendon Urie
#72. It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.
Estwick Evans
#74. Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
Al-Ghazali
#75. In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.
Brandon Benevides
#76. Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#78. I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying but would be rejected if black men said them.
John Howard Griffin
#79. I wrote this poem called "The Calvinist" to capture a glimpse of God's sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.
John Piper
#80. She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Milan Kundera
#81. I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
Henry David Thoreau
#82. Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.
Coretta Scott King
#83. There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.
J.M. Coetzee
#85. But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
Frederic William Farrar
#86. Light, more light!"
But the closer the priest came to his goal, the less man there was in him, the more beast.
Sjon
#87. Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#88. For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists and we were the drones.
Lynn Povich
#89. Didn't you enjoy meeting the young men?"
"What men? There wasn't a man there I couldn't squash ten of.
Ayn Rand
#90. According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
Brownie McGhee
#92. He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.
Jean Plaidy
#93. The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like ... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine
#94. For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
Herman Melville
#95. In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain Albert Camus
Robert Zaretsky
#96. Four years ago, he'd nearly married. But his girlfriend went to do theater in London and met a new man there. They'd stayed friends, till she sent photos of her newborn. "When you open the baby-photo email," Fogg said, "it's like your friends waving goodbye.
Tom Rachman
#97. John the Skrull: (as Merlyn) "Here, listen. It's me, Merlyn, the magic man. There's no need for all this conflict, like. I command you to
"
Tink: "Suck my tits, you fairy fuckers!"
John the Skrull: "I was going to say 'give peace a chance' ...
Paul Cornell
#98. A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
John Bunyan
#99. Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
H.L. Mencken
#100. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.
Richard Llewellyn
