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Man Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
- This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
- A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
- All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their…
- What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In…
- What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high…
- How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle