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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.
I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.
Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.
Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.
Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
You make one tiny variable and so help me, I’ll have you slaughtered where you sit. (Kiefer) He’s just such a nice man. (Nykyrian)
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.
There is many a monster who wears the form of a man; it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster.
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.