Man Quotes
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.