Men Quotes · Page 1,053

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

— John Carroll

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

— Sarah Dunant

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

— Khalil Gibran

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

— Phyllis Bentley

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

— Chester A. Arthur

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

— Todd McFarlane

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

— Vance Havner

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy…

— Mickey Rourke

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must…

— David Hume

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the…

— Gregory Bateson

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first…

— David Baldacci

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm…

— Corey Taylor

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

— Anonymous

The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost…

— James Madison

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger,…

— Elie Wiesel

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the…

— John Jay Chapman

I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to…

— Adam Richman

Where is Wilkins, anyway?" Cameron asked. "In the living room, being accosted by eighteen women who think he's a stripper. I thought…

— Julie James

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he…

— Anonymous

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his…

— Alexander Berkman

The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a…

— Mike Huckabee

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

— Carlos Santana

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

— Michael Moore

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

— Kathleen Turner

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

— Edmund Spenser

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

— Jared Leto

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

— Euripides

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

— Khalil Gibran

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

— Francis Quarles

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

— Robert Kennedy

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

— Lloyd Alexander

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself.

— Sri Aurobindo

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the…

— Walter Lippmann

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

— Ian Brown

If you're a man and you have big tits, don't wear a tight T-shirt, okay? It confuses the children!

— Dennis Miller