Top 100 Quotes About The Man
#1. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
Nicole Ireland
#2. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.
Bryan Batt
#3. The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.
Marcel Proust
#4. The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Edge?"
"E.D.G.E.," he said, helping him to the waiting helicopter. "Elite Digital and Global Enforcement."
"Never heard of it," Jake said.
"That's the idea," the man said with a grin.
Trish Loye
#6. It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
Beryl Bainbridge
#7. I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. At least the man had the sense to admit it.
Alan Bradley
#9. Clothes do not make the man, but you need the proper costume to play the part.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
#11. I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.
Sean Price
#12. And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."
Minnie Louise Haskins
#13. Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
Frances Wright
#14. 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
#15. SONG OF THE MAN WHO WAS TO BE HUNG The thunders will take me home, whenever I mind to go home, my friends, and the wind it will take me home, too.
Carl Sandburg
#16. The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B.C. Forbes
#17. The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.
Ray Bradbury
#18. My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#19. My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.
Mel Gibson
#21. The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
Andrew Carnegie
#22. The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen
#23. Ta-da! The man whipped open his coat.
Shit! He wasn't wearing any clothes at all. She grimaced. Just her luck to go vampire hunting and find a flasher.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#24. The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Elbert Hubbard
#25. Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.
Annie Besant
#26. And how are you, Ferdinand?" "You don't have to ask. You mustn't think it's bad just for you. It's bad for everybody. That's the terrible thing. It's bad for Prosper, bad for the man they gave your shop to, bad for everybody. Nobody's going anywhere.
V.S. Naipaul
#27. It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.
Ted Knight
#28. Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
Alanis Morissette
#29. She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.
Peggy Darty
#30. Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.
Erich Von Manstein
#31. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
#32. The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
Steve Winwood
#33. Why don't you like Noel Kahn?" Mike's voice made Aria jump. He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand."He's the man."
Aria groaned. "If you like him so much why don't you go out with him?
Sara Shepard
#35. I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way
Eric Church
#36. Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer
Laurent Fignon
#37. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
#38. Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart.
Solange Nicole
#39. For what can be above the man who is above fortune?
Seneca.
#40. The man under the hedge, sir. He is a magician. Did you never hear that if you wake a magician before his time, you risk bringing his dreams out of his head into the world?
Susanna Clarke
#41. Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.
William Gilmore Simms
#42. Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?
George R R Martin
#43. Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
William Matthews
#45. That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.
Edwin Markham
#46. Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.
Judith Martin
#47. The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
Andrew Holleran
#49. A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#50. A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
Honore De Balzac
#51. It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up.
G.K. Chesterton
#52. The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Francois Truffaut
#53. A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.
Gilbert Gottfried
#54. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.
H.P. Lovecraft
#55. You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
Napoleon Hill
#56. As the government is, such will be the man.
Plato
#57. As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.
Gelett Burgess
#58. People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
Robert F. Kennedy
#59. If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*
Mary Catherine Bateson
#60. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#61. How much happier is the man who owes nothing to anybody except the one he can most easily refuse, himself!
Seneca.
#62. Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
George Horace Lorimer
#63. To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn't think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind
#64. Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
Aldous Huxley
#65. The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#66. The man who'd saved her wasn't just a pair of sexy lips and a rugged jaw with big, yummy eyes. He was the whole package. Seriously? What Earth woman would prefer downloading offspring when she could ravage this instead?
Patricia Eimer
#67. Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.
Julia Roberts
#69. I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#70. I've never really undestood," the unicorn mused as the man picked himself up," what you dream of doing with me, once you've caught me."
The man leaped again, and she slipped away from him like rain. "I don't think you know yourself," she said.
Peter S. Beagle
#71. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But ... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
#72. The man was all alone in the night - a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
William, Saroyan
#74. So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Voltaire
#75. You still love him."
"I love the boy he was. I could love the man, too. I don't know, and that's why I have to find out."
"Oh, Aimee," she said sadly, pulling me into a tight hug. "Please be careful."
"Too late," I whispered.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#77. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.
Ford Madox Ford
#78. The wife drives the ship. She is the puppet master. But in order to maintain a happy home, you must let the man believe that he calls the shots.
S.L. Jennings
#79. Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant when one couldn't get a sentence out.
Julia Quinn
#80. I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day." ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates
Lisa Kleypas
#81. A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.
Mary Oliver
#82. The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
Karel Capek
#84. Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
George R R Martin
#85. The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Bill Copeland
#86. There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.
James Russell Lowell
#87. In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart.
"Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?"
No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.
Orson Scott Card
#88. He accepted me for who I was, scabs and all. But he refused to accept that that was all I was. And when someone believes in you, goes out on a limb for you when they have no obligation to do shit - it has an impact. It made me want to look in the mirror and see the man he knew I could be. And
Emma Chase
#89. Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?
Christopher Healy
#90. What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?.
Yash Chopra
#91. Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.
Sid Waddell
#92. He looked at the cop. He'd known the man less than a day, didn't trust him, and wasn't sure he much liked him. And this was who he'd die with.
James S.A. Corey
#93. The man starts wars all the fucking time, only this time, when I needed a little conflict? Now he's the fucking peacemaker.
James S.A. Corey
#94. The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.
George Bowen
#95. No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin
George Washington
#96. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.
Claire Keegan
#97. Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
Juvenal
#99. The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
Vincente Minnelli
#100. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy
