Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of...
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'
I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he...
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
