Axel Munthe Quotes

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

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• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Long
  • Today
  • Energy

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Man

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Man
  • Heaven

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• 'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

  

  Kelli Williams
  • Great
  • Long
  • Law

• I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Lost
  • Winter

• I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Science
  • Forever
  • Study

• When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Departed

• For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Up
  • Team
  • Pain

• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Long
  • Man
  • Stand