Man Quotes
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
Carine Roitfeld
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Saadi
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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. Henry
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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.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne
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Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"
Diogenes
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
Oscar Wilde
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Orison Swett Marden
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
T. E. Hulme
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Rachel Cusk
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I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
Irina Shayk
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Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
Samantha Harvey
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There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.
Matthew Henson
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The best thing a man can have, in my view, is health.
Epicharmus of Kos
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Jack Nicklaus
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
Hans Jonas
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When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Dan Totheroh
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
Otto Schily
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
Friedrich Nietzsche