Top 100 Stay A Man Quotes
#1. Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in '91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me." He shook his head. "This is my nation. Here I stay. A man can't carry his country on the soles of his shoes.
Hilary Mantel
#2. Seems like I've been waiting for you to come around my whole life, Lee. But a man can't wait forever and stay a man.
Rae Carson
#3. A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.
Homer Hickam
#4. And that, too, was the truth, that a man cannot step back from a fight and stay a man. We make much in this life if we are able. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. I could not walk away.
Bernard Cornwell
#5. I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana
#6. A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.
J.I. Packer
#7. And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I'd found out long ago that I couldn't stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.
Kim Harrison
#8. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by
Hanshan
#9. I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a
woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.
Karen Hawkins
#10. Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. It turned out that it was difficult to stay cross with a man when you could see his nipples.
FayJay
#12. A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.
Stephen King
#13. Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle.
Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels.
Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand
That Santa Claus is a black man.
Keith Murray
#14. Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
George Orwell
#15. I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn't loved me enough to stay in it.
Jojo Moyes
#16. The primary reason to leave was her art; the singular reason to stay was a man.
Gina Conkle
#17. Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it."
"Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.
Ben Aaronovitch
#18. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
George Horace Lorimer
#20. Stay true to yourself because a lot of times women get so wrapped up in doing for a man that we forget to focus on us. A lot of times that is unattractive. They love us because we are independent and focused on the things that make us happy. Because when they see you happy, their happy!
Gabrielle Dennis
#21. I need to be gone before she gets up. Seeing her will only make it harder to stay away from her. A man can only be pushed so far before he gives in, regardless of the consequences.
M. Leighton
#22. I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole
#23. I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#24. Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.
George R R Martin
#25. This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?
Carol Gilligan
#26. My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.
Hayley Kiyoko
#27. Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on ...
Matthew Pearl
#29. For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.
Nikki Rowe
#30. Just a note: it was impossible to stay pissed at a handsome man when he had his mouth between your legs.
Especially if he really, really knew how to use that mouth.
Kristen Ashley
#31. someone exceedingly loyal, a true yes-man, a cog who knew when to turn, when to stay still.
Ben Mezrich
#32. For a man of 55 who didn't get laid
until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone
until I get as much as the average man has had
Charles Bukowski
#33. In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
Eddie Vedder
#35. To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!
Terry Goodkind
#37. How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?" "Plenty," came the answer, "and more ...
Charles Bukowski
#38. You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.
Dave Eggers
#39. When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. I love Nashville. I've been here so many times ... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.
Jimmy Fallon
#41. He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, frogs is what they stay.
Alice Walker
#42. Find a man who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
Who calls you back when you hang up on him,
Who will ... stay awake just to watch you sleep...
Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats.
Colin Martin
#43. I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.
Meles Zenawi
#44. A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall
#45. I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.
Leah Remini
#46. I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.
Sylvester Stallone
#47. If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#48. I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.
Dwight L. Moody
#49. I'm warning you. I'm not a good man, Karissa, and I never will be. So don't think you can fix me, or that I'll ever change, because I won't. I can't. You have to know, if this goes any further, if you ask me to stay, I'm not going to be able to let you walk away.
J.M. Darhower
#50. Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.
Miyamoto Musashi
#51. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.
Vladimir Nabokov
#52. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#53. I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.
Erri De Luca
#54. It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you.
Lena Karynn Tesla
#55. How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors?
Phil Rickman
#56. A man's interest is only perceived by his willingness to stay focused.
Justin Bienvenue
#57. He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.
Louis L'Amour
#58. You stay in your comfortable houses built by your fathers. I stay on my own. You lead secure lives. I lead my life with no security. You say you are leading a meaningful life. And I laugh at you.
Avijeet Das
#59. I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.
Dinah Katt
#60. Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.
Nikki Haley
#61. Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.
Osamu Dazai
#62. Either I can stay up here and freeze my ladycrackers off trying to find a falling star, or you can do something about it yourself. I - and my freezing nether regions - would thank you most assuredly. As would all of Dalkeith. Do something, man. - Grimm
Karen Marie Moning
#63. The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
Clarence Day
#64. If I was to show the Latter-day Saints all the revelations that the Lord has shown unto me, there is scarce a man that would stay with me, they could not bear it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#65. No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.
Alamvusha
#66. Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?
Loretta Chase
#67. He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.
Darynda Jones
#68. Well, the gods love a man who laughs at hardship." "Hardship is boring as all hell. Gotta find laughs if you can't stay drunk,
Scott Lynch
#69. Oh man, I'm about to be in a hot man sandwich and I want to stay there, oh yes I do.
Bella Jewel
#70. Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [ ... ]
I did not know what to say to this.
Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.
Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.
Dan Simmons
#71. Are more to a woman than any man can be. We pretend otherwise. We pretend we bear them for him, that we raise them for him. But it's not true. We raise them for themselves. We stay with our men for the children's sake.
Orson Scott Card
#72. [Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.
David Beckham
#73. For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
Mike Norton
#74. I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.
Lizbeth Gabriel
#75. I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
Natalie Dormer
#76. To have relied on a man to stay alive is a bond closer than blood.
David Mitchell
#77. Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.
William Butler Yeats
#78. Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
Brendan Behan
#79. No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.
Alamvusha
#80. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
Oprah Winfrey
#81. It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
Helen Rowland
#82. A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: "Go."
Lottie Moon
#83. If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
Joe Abercrombie
#84. I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
Jay Leno
#85. When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson
#86. When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.
Nancy Farmer
#87. If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!
Ric Flair
#88. It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man ... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.
Adrien Brody
#89. Anastasia, I'm not a hearts and flowers kind of man, I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You should steer clear of me." He closes his eyes as if in defeat. "There's something about you, though,and I'm finding it impossible to stay away. But I think you've figured that out already.
E.L. James
#90. For a man to get married and stay married, he must detach from and disavow the three things that bind him to reality: sex, travel, and near-death experiences.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#91. I would rather stay in Samiya and serve the gods than leave and serve a man.
Emily R. King
#92. A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler Yeats
#94. Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#95. The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
Richard M. Nixon
#96. Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is in a pleasant state of mind, everything went well and easily. p 1128
Leo Tolstoy
#97. Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.
Janet Fitch
#98. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.
Stephanie Danler
#99. We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.
Karina Halle
#100. But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.
Brandi L. Bates
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