Man Quotes
44718 Man quotes by 11542 unique authors
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I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
— Kurt Cobain
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
— Leonard Cohen
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in…
— Leonard Cohen
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The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's…
— Harlan Coben
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Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
— Johnnie Cochran
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
— Jean Cocteau
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,…
— Jean Cocteau
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I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.
— Diablo Cody
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
— Paulo Coelho
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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being…
— Andrew Cohen
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many…
— Andrew Cohen
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
— Leonard Cohen
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as…
— Stewart Alsop
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I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live…
— Summer Altice
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which…
— B R Ambedkar
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B R Ambedkar
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies…
— B R Ambedkar
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not…
— B R Ambedkar
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Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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