Top 100 Not A Man Quotes
#1. The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She didn't call it an "atomic bomb." She called it "the monster of Frankenstein.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#2. When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to flicker and hiss like a candle burnt to its wick, making longevity impossible without a new energy source.
B.G. Bowers
#3. If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.
Tom Ford
#4. I'm not a man easily moved to displays of emotion, but tonight I am weak, I am vulnerable. It must be from being inside her, so close to her, breathing in her pain, and love, and light, and blossoming vulnerable beauty
Poppet
#5. I woke up this morning," Gabriel said, "thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don't realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man's usual inclination in the morning.
Eloisa James
#6. I'm not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I'm an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.
Abbi Glines
#7. If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
Miguel De Unamuno
#8. The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.
Noah Webster
#10. Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.
Ronda Rousey
#11. I don't know how to give up," he said. "If I did. I would have already, long before I met you. I'm not a man who's ever gonna lay down, Jenna." He paused, and his teeth flashed white in the near dark. "Except maybe for you.
Ellen Connor
#12. He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
Hilary Mantel
#13. No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.
Dave Barry
#14. A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#15. We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
Sidney Poitier
#18. I know you're not a man of faith, Edmond, but faith is found when one isn't looking for it and the day will come when your heart, and not your mind, will long for the purification of the soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#19. Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus
#20. There is not a man who has been in this community a few years but knows I am telling the living truth. Do any of you hate me for it? Do any of you love me for it? It is all the same to me.
Brigham Young
#21. There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
Will Rogers
#22. The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers.
Louis Thomas McFadden
#23. This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet
#24. Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.
Baha'u'llah
#25. There was not a man in the party but believed that with a little practice he could stand in a row, especially if there were others along;
Mark Twain
#26. WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:
In your case, ED is not a man's name.
Robin Glasser
#27. 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
#28. I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
David Clement-Davies
#29. It felt forbidden. As though he was a boy when I met him and not a man of 26.
Sasha Bristol
#30. The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of a woman. Jesus was not a man in the rigid sense of manhood as distinct from womanhood, but, as the Son of Man, the complete Head of Humanity.
A.B. Simpson
#31. It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God's laws do not change and His word is steadfast
Sunday Adelaja
#32. My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.
Patti Davis
#34. A man is not a man until he's able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from that of others.
James Baldwin
#35. A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#36. I am not a man of fear, but I am a man that knows how to fear. Without fear, we become lazy. Without fear, we become reckless. Fear doesn't limit a man, it keeps the man sharp.
Lionel Suggs
#37. Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!
John Grier Hibben
#38. His stubble was thick and not groomed. He was not a man who forgot to shave that day or had been too busy to do so for a couple. It had been weeks. Though it was not a full grown beard. I
Kristen Ashley
#39. I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#40. The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ...
Aristotle.
#41. There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
Theodore Roosevelt
#42. A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley
#43. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
#44. I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
Kris Allen
#45. He was not a man to hide his emotions and if tested, his blue eyes would darken, gleaming like unfathomable gems.
Teresa Medeiros
#46. I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
Questlove
#47. They appear somewhat unreliable," he murmured.
"Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to."
"Are you sure?"
"She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
Joe Abercrombie
#48. There is not a man born among us who dreams - at first - of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
Michelle Sagara
#49. A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
Gregory David Roberts
#50. I understand the influence you have all too well. The commander will do exactly what you want, bend to your will. That alone should prove to you that strength is a woman's endowment, not a man's.
Cayla Kluver
#51. A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
C.S. Lewis
#52. I soon discovered he was not a man of many words, but rather a man of the right words.
Katy Evans
#53. If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#54. I had only questions, uncertainties, and shame. A kiss that was not a kiss from a man who was not a man.
Alexis Hall
#55. A man betrayed by life's rats either hates and seeks eternal revenge, or forgives and seeks eternal distance; A man honored by life's faithful builds, and builds, and builds. A man indifferent to betrayal is not a man.
Mark Donnelly
#56. Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
Chanakya
#57. Look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, e very way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face - look at my hands - look at my body," and the young man dr ew himself up proudly. "Why am I not a man, as much as anybody?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#58. If a monkey has become a man - what may not a man become?
Tom Wolfe
#59. There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#60. It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.
Jean Stafford
#61. A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
W. H. Auden
#62. Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.
Colm Feore
#63. Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
John Donne
#64. I like a guy who is confident and easy-going, but a man who's a man, not a man who is a little boy. I like a man who is comfortable with himself.
Caroline Winberg
#66. You deserve a man who will take you and keep you, not a man who will have you and leave you. I can't be the man who does that to you.
Elizabeth Finn
#67. A man without his word is not a man.
Ben Tolosa
#68. Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#69. This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing - and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.
Patricia Briggs
#70. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Frederick Douglass
#71. He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
E. E. Cummings
#74. Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
Henry Ford
#75. You are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!
Edwin A. Abbott
#76. I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.
Charles Bukowski
#77. By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
William Shakespeare
#78. There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverage.
David Letterman
#79. He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Horace Mann
#80. A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.
Bill Clinton
#81. Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks ... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.
Brent Weeks
#82. This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.
Sarah Palin
#85. You are not a man, I thought. A man doesn't drink sparkling water; he chugs tap water from a hose after changing his oil.
Alessandra Torre
#87. An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.
Joseph Fort Newton
#88. He is greater than you will ever be. Not because of rank. It's not a man's rank that makes him a man. It's how he treats others. You will never be remembered.
Victoria Escobar
#89. What is character, if not a man's measure of himself against his friends and enemies?
Christopher Moore
#90. Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Harper Lee
#91. There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.
Ayn Rand
#92. The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
Jack London
#93. He is not a man that is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him." STAMFORD, DESCRIBING SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DR. WATSON, IN SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, A STUDY IN SCARLET
Adam S. McHugh
#94. I'm not a man. I have no male pride for you to trick me with, and I am not interested in single combat. That is entirely a weakness of your sex, not mine. I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.
Cassandra Clare
#95. The Christian life is Christ living through a man, not a man trying to be Christ.
Dan DeHaan
#96. Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man,husband,father, or friend,simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.
Glenn Beck
#97. I am not a good man. I'm not a man at all. But I love you and my love is certainly steadfast.
Sylvain Reynard
#98. I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.
Paul Scholes
#99. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius
#100. But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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