Man Quotes
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps -
All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.
Coleman Dowell
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When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?
Alice Randall -
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
Euripides -
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
Haleh Afshar -
Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
Conn Iggulden -
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
Charles Dickens
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I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton -
Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
Jules Verne -
This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson -
Man does not live by destruction.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Isabel Allende -
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot
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I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
Anne Bronte -
To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
Epictetus -
And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
Angela Johnson -
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Epictetus -
You can just fight one man at a time.
Lennox Lewis -
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Blaise Pascal
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A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
Conn Iggulden -
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Seneca the Younger -
I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Catherynne M. Valente -
This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
Nat Hentoff