Man Quotes
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
Viktor E. Frankl
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
Barbara Park
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
Victor Hugo
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
Malcolm X
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale
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My father was a very difficult man.
Sade Adu
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God did not create religion. God created man. Man created religion.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
Gabriel Byrne
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Ted Danson
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Edith Evans
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
Eddi Reader
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
Harold Nicolson