Men Quotes
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Commitment to great causes makes great men.
Billy Graham
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You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
Abraham Lincoln
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As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
Kevin Kwan
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
Aharon Appelfeld
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You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.
Sid Vicious Siouxsie and the Banshees
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
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'It has always seemed strange to me,' said Doc. 'The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.'
John Steinbeck
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I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
Shannon Lucid
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Those were men in whom great strength and knowledge served the will to evil and fed upon it. Whether the wizardry that serves a better end may always prove the stronger, we do not know. We hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.
James Larkin
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Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.
Jack London
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I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
William Styron
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Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them; and therefore they are of the colour of night, that is black. And in cold countries it is just the contrary.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
Byron Nelson
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Anton Seidl
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.
Elinor Wylie
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.
Angela Bettis
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He said within his soul, ''This is the end: O'er all the earth to where the-heavens bend And hem men's travel, I have breathed my soul: I lie here now the remnant of that whole, The embers of a life, a lonely pain; As far-off rivers to my thirst were vain, So of my mighty years nought comes to me again'.
George Eliot
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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.
Claire Messud