Man Quotes

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

~ Hugo Chavez

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

~ Mark Ruffalo

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

~ Diane Kruger

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

~ Dakota Fanning

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

~ Craig Kilborn

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

~ Gina Gershon

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

~ Charles A. Beard

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

~ David Harris

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

~ Dave Barry

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

~ Maya Angelou

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

~ Leonard Susskind

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

~ Ayn Rand

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

~ Denzel Washington

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

~ Lebron James

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

~ Camille Paglia

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

~ Lance Armstrong

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

~ Moby

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

~ Jeb Bush

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

~ Brad Pitt

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

~ Brandon Flowers

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

~ Dorothy Fields

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

~ H. L. Mencken

Man is not free unless government is limited.

~ Ronald Reagan

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

~ Ayn Rand

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

~ Lysander Spooner

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

~ Roy Moore

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

~ Adam Weishaupt

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

~ Harry S Truman

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

~ Nelson A. Miles

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson