Man Quotes
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It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.
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I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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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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Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. In the cradle a child is screaming. An old man sits over his death, and anyone young enough talks to his love, breathes into her lips, looks into her eyes.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
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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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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.
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What man is, only history tells.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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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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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
