Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
- Jacob Bronowski
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.
- Aravind Adiga
I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
- Cassandra Clare
Oh, come on, Jace," Clary said. "You can't wait for perfect behavior from everyone. Adults screw up too. Go back to the Institute and talk to her rationally. Be a man."
"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
- Cassandra Clare
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
- James Allen
Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
- Isaac Asimov
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
- Margaret Atwood
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
All right. I will be a man about this...I'm so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had no idea anyone would abuse you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!" Andy
"I really need to get that boy a girlfriend- or at least laid." Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
- Ann Beattie
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
- Simone De Beauvoir
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
On both perhaps.
- Albert Camus
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
- John Steinbeck
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
- Pope Benedict Xvi
The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies.
It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.
- Toba Beta
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
- Ugo Betti
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.
- E M Forster
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
- Tamora Pierce
Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!
- William Shakespeare
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.
Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own?
I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.
- Brandon Sanderson
Why be a man when you can be a success?
- Bertolt Brecht
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
- Geraldine Brooks
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.
- Rudyard Kipling
I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday," Poseidon said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!"
That's true," Paul said. "I used to teach ancient history."
Poseidon's eyes twinkled. "That's me. Ancient history.
- Rick Riordan
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
- Stanley Kubrick
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
- Emil Cioran
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.
- Kelly Corrigan
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
- Davy Crockett
What's up with you?" "I'm grounded," I say, just to say something real. "I told Mum to fuck off." He whistles. "Why'd you tell her that? Any other 'off' leaves room for parole. 'Sod off,' 'shove off'even 'sock off' is still pretty satisfying." "You've told your dad to sock off?" "Once. He said, 'What the fuck is "sock off"? Be a man and tell me to fuck off.'" "So did you tell him?" "No. Because that was the trap. There's never time out for good behavior with 'fuck off.
- Cath Crowley
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- Virginia Woolf
I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
- K W Jeter
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)
- Milan Kundera
All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. Drink it to the dregs. No cheating allowed. No making believe it's not there. Modern man cheats. He tries to get around all the milestones on the road from birth to death.
- Milan Kundera
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Horace
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
- Elisabeth Elliot
You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped.
"If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result
- Suzanne Enoch
She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.
- Mike Epps
What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory.
'A priest' said Father Damien
'A man priest or a woman priest?'...
...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest?
- Louise Erdrich
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
- Marat Safin
Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?
- Alex Flinn
...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.
- Diana Gabaldon
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
- Neil Gaiman
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who've never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.
- Leo Tolstoy
I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.
- Paul Gascoigne
I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
- Sue Grafton
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
- Abigail Reynolds
You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
-Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
It's your one last chance ... Be a man ... try ... Try for some remorse ...
- J K Rowling
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
- Little Richard
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
- Little Richard
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
- Arianna Huffington
And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?
- Siri Hustvedt
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric...
- Thomas Huxley
The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
- Patricia Ireland
He was being called on to be a man, called up for service almost, except his country didnt need him, his lover did, and he felt proud and strong and ready to do whatever was necessary.
- Lisa Jewell
Sam was a woman. All women are mortal. Therefore, Sam must be a man.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to be a man of letters. All 26 of them.
- Jarod Kintz
She wanted an Angel of Music... an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her... But I could be her angel' -Erik
- Susan Kay
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
- Jackie Kennedy
Songs of myself
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into new tongue.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.
- Walt Whitman
If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.
- Suge Knight
I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
- Boris Kodjoe
He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30
- Dean Koontz
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
- Jon Krakauer
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
- Hedy Lamarr
Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
- Matt Leblanc
I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.
- C S Lewis
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
- Jerry Lewis
I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.
- Gary Lineker
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
- Ashly Lorenzana
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
- Pierre Loti
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.
- George Macdonald
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- Malcolm X
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
- Mickey Mantle
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
- Maureen Mccormick
In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!
- Alan Moore
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.
- Toni Morrison
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
- Walter Mosley
Just hold on. Just for a minute."
"Are you all right ?"
I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
"I'm fine. I just...I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about...I just...want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more..
- Jojo Moyes
I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
- Brittany Murphy
I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.
- Patrick Ness
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.
- Allison Pearson
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
- William Penn
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L Pike
Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands.
- Ezra Pound
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Quintilian
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
- Wilhelm Reich
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
- Auguste Rodin
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
- Wayne Rooney
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
In my experience there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you off your feet, or away, when you're in the biggest distaster of your life. If it happens, it'll be guaranteed he or she won't be the one you've longed for. Yeah...we all still seem to be waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Right.
- Jennifer Salaiz
I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
- Catherine Sanderson
You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
- Jennifer Saunders
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
- Agnes Smedley
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
- Patti Smith
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.
- Jerry Spinelli
I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.
- Scylar Tyberius
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
- Steven Tyler
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
- Robert Penn Warren
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
- H G Wells
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
- Cornel West
Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.
- F Paul Wilson
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
- Zakk Wylde
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
- Charles Yu
- Jacob Bronowski
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.
- Aravind Adiga
I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
- Cassandra Clare
Oh, come on, Jace," Clary said. "You can't wait for perfect behavior from everyone. Adults screw up too. Go back to the Institute and talk to her rationally. Be a man."
"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
- Cassandra Clare
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
- James Allen
Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
- Isaac Asimov
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
- Margaret Atwood
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
All right. I will be a man about this...I'm so sorry Bets. I should have hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had no idea anyone would abuse you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!" Andy
"I really need to get that boy a girlfriend- or at least laid." Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
- Ann Beattie
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
- Simone De Beauvoir
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.
On both perhaps.
- Albert Camus
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
- Albert Camus
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
- John Steinbeck
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
- Pope Benedict Xvi
The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies.
It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.
- Toba Beta
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
- Ugo Betti
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.
- E M Forster
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
- Tamora Pierce
Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!
- William Shakespeare
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.
Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own?
I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.
- Brandon Sanderson
Why be a man when you can be a success?
- Bertolt Brecht
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
- Geraldine Brooks
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.
- Rudyard Kipling
I couldn't miss Percy's fifteenth birthday," Poseidon said. "Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!"
That's true," Paul said. "I used to teach ancient history."
Poseidon's eyes twinkled. "That's me. Ancient history.
- Rick Riordan
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
- Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
- Stanley Kubrick
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
- Emil Cioran
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.
- Kelly Corrigan
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
- Davy Crockett
What's up with you?" "I'm grounded," I say, just to say something real. "I told Mum to fuck off." He whistles. "Why'd you tell her that? Any other 'off' leaves room for parole. 'Sod off,' 'shove off'even 'sock off' is still pretty satisfying." "You've told your dad to sock off?" "Once. He said, 'What the fuck is "sock off"? Be a man and tell me to fuck off.'" "So did you tell him?" "No. Because that was the trap. There's never time out for good behavior with 'fuck off.
- Cath Crowley
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
- Virginia Woolf
I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
- K W Jeter
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)
- Milan Kundera
All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. Drink it to the dregs. No cheating allowed. No making believe it's not there. Modern man cheats. He tries to get around all the milestones on the road from birth to death.
- Milan Kundera
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Horace
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
- Elisabeth Elliot
You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped.
"If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result
- Suzanne Enoch
She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.
- Mike Epps
What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory.
'A priest' said Father Damien
'A man priest or a woman priest?'...
...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest?
- Louise Erdrich
If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
- Marat Safin
Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?
- Alex Flinn
...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.
- Diana Gabaldon
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.
- Neil Gaiman
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who've never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.
- Leo Tolstoy
I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.
- Paul Gascoigne
I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
- Sue Grafton
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
- Abigail Reynolds
You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
-Albus Dumbledore
- J K Rowling
It's your one last chance ... Be a man ... try ... Try for some remorse ...
- J K Rowling
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
- Little Richard
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
- Little Richard
Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
- Arianna Huffington
And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?
- Siri Hustvedt
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric...
- Thomas Huxley
The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
- Patricia Ireland
He was being called on to be a man, called up for service almost, except his country didnt need him, his lover did, and he felt proud and strong and ready to do whatever was necessary.
- Lisa Jewell
Sam was a woman. All women are mortal. Therefore, Sam must be a man.
- Jarod Kintz
I want to be a man of letters. All 26 of them.
- Jarod Kintz
She wanted an Angel of Music... an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her... But I could be her angel' -Erik
- Susan Kay
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
- Jackie Kennedy
Songs of myself
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into new tongue.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.
- Walt Whitman
If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.
- Suge Knight
I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
- Boris Kodjoe
He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30
- Dean Koontz
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
- Jon Krakauer
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
- Hedy Lamarr
Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
- Matt Leblanc
I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.
- C S Lewis
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
- Jerry Lewis
I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.
- Gary Lineker
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
- Ashly Lorenzana
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
- Pierre Loti
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.
- George Macdonald
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- Malcolm X
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
- Mickey Mantle
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
- Maureen Mccormick
In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!
- Alan Moore
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.
- Toni Morrison
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
- Walter Mosley
Just hold on. Just for a minute."
"Are you all right ?"
I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
"I'm fine. I just...I don't want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about...I just...want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more..
- Jojo Moyes
I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
- Brittany Murphy
I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month's time exactly.
- Patrick Ness
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.
- Allison Pearson
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
- William Penn
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L Pike
Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands.
- Ezra Pound
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Quintilian
You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.
- Wilhelm Reich
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!
- Auguste Rodin
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
- Wayne Rooney
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
In my experience there never seems to be a man or woman who will walk in and literally sweep you off your feet, or away, when you're in the biggest distaster of your life. If it happens, it'll be guaranteed he or she won't be the one you've longed for. Yeah...we all still seem to be waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Right.
- Jennifer Salaiz
I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
- Catherine Sanderson
You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.
- Jennifer Saunders
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
- Agnes Smedley
Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
- Patti Smith
Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.
- Jerry Spinelli
I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.
- Scylar Tyberius
We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
- Steven Tyler
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
- Robert Penn Warren
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
- H G Wells
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
- Cornel West
Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.
- F Paul Wilson
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
- Zakk Wylde
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
- Charles Yu
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