Man Quotes
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Ferdowsi
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
Mads Mikkelsen
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
Raekwon
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Nancy Gibbs
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Albert Einstein
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
Albert Einstein
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Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Sophocles
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Octavio Paz
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson