Top 100 Man Wants Quotes
#2. 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
#4. The man is angry, the man
Is destructive, the man wants more.
The woman is more, the woman is all.
James Franco
#5. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Robin G. Collingwood
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants ...
Louis L'Amour
#9. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
Rudolf Steiner
#10. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say.
Ayn Rand
#15. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren
#16. When he is sick, every man wants his mother.
Philip Roth
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment
Alexander Bryan Johnson
#21. There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#22. Most common thing in marriage is to see the man or the woman, or both, each in their own way, trying to destroy the third person that they form together, the one that resists, that wants to survive regardless,
Jose Saramago
#23. The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry
Karl Marx
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. If we go to the white man for school ,we will learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will come back and build the country the white man wants us to build. One that continues to serve them. We will never be free.
Yaa Gyasi
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...
Virginia Alison
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
Stephen King
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...
Susanna Centlivre
#48. 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
#49. Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
Immanuel Kant
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.
Vincent Starrett
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
#56. Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs
Samantha Gregory
#57. There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias Canetti
#58. Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust. And if a guy is paying attention to you, he wants to have sex with you.
Oliver Markus
#59. A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.
M.G. Hardie
#60. I want Little Noah looking like a beat-up mess by the time he's eighteen."
"Why?"
"Cause no woman wants a delicate man. He needs to be sporting at least five scars.
S. Walden
#61. I'm here because you're here. When a man loves a woman, he wants to spend time with her. Even if that means he has to put on a suit and tie. He wants to hold her tight and smell her hair.
Rachel Gibson
#62. Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. Christine: There's something really romantic about that. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. But what if you meet her, and you don't think she's attractive?
Lincoln: I don't think I care what she looks like.
Rainbow Rowell
#65. I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.
Narendra Modi
#66. Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.
Stuart Miller
#68. Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Sydney Madwed
#69. A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#70. MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#71. Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't.
Chloe Thurlow
#72. Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.
Glenn Beck
#73. I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
Alex Pettyfer
#74. Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings
#75. Being a man with a big heart, a man of consideration, a man who wants to do the right thing by people, and a follower of Christ (who said "Love thy enemy" -- though I would add "from a distance")[...]
Flavor Flav
#76. Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants.
David Brin
#77. A real man wants to know how to make his woman moan and takes up the challenge of keepin' that up and makin' it better
Kristen Ashley
#79. Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those
big, comfy granny panties she's got on.
Simone Elkeles
#80. He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
Michael Cunningham
#81. If you're being the woman God wants you to be and a man still doesn't respect you, surely that isn't the man God has for you. Always hold to the standard of respect you deserve and a great man will easily recognize the caliber of woman you are and treat you accordingly.
Stephan Labossiere
#82. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville
#83. If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it.
George R R Martin
#84. If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.
Orestes Brownson
#85. No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit.
Karen Marie Moning
#86. One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.
Barbara Delinsky
#88. He wants to know why my marks aren't better. Why I don't speak fluent French. Why I can't kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.
Gail Carriger
#91. A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
Mark Twain
#92. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile Selassie
#93. He's the sort of man who wants power. He doesn't have it, but he thinks he's entitled to it by birthright. He's incapable of earning what he wants, so he wants what he hasn't earned. The sort of man who, if he wants something, thinks it's all right to take it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#94. The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
H.L. Mencken
#95. No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
Muhammad Ali
#96. Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.
Hugh Miller
#97. When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Anthony Trollope
#98. I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
Jill Hennessy
#99. Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.
Victoria Beckham
#100. As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
Haile Selassie
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