Man Quotes
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It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.
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If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
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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.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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I am the rich man's guru.
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The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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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.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.
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That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.
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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.
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Coach Holton is a man of great character and integrity and it has been my pleasure to work with him. He is an extremely talented human being and it is hard for me to see him go. We all offer him our sincere best wishes for the future.
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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Nature made the fields and man the cities.
