Man Quotes
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In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
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We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.