Man Quotes
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Retired life's good, man.
Calvin Johnson -
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
Olin Miller
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I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
Ice Cube -
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
Pankaj Mishra -
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
Francis Bacon -
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann -
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Oscar Wilde
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
Ilka Chase -
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
Oscar Wilde -
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson -
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins -
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
Lena Horne -
The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken -
Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.
Albert Einstein -
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Oscar Wilde -
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory -
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
Ted Shawn -
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead -
If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
Mahershala Ali -
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Immanuel Kant -
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
William Faulkner