Man Quotes

Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn't dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn't get involved.

~ Tyson Fury

I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

~ Brigitte Bardot

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

~ Mitt Romney

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

~ Bertrand Russell

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

~ Chris Stapleton

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

~ Benjamin Watson

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

~ David Hume

At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy... everything has a place. It's kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.

~ Margherita Missoni

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

~ Sargent Shriver

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

~ Lisa Kudrow

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

~ Adam Clayton

Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

~ Cameron Boyce

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

~ Thomas Merton

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

~ Robert Browning

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

~ William Blake

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

~ Arthur Young

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

~ James Allen

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

~ Bernard Williams

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

~ Isaac Asimov

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

~ Aristophanes

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

~ Tupac Shakur

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

~ Salvador Dalí

Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

~ John Lasseter

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ John Barrymore

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

~ Samuel Johnson

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

~ Steve Winwood

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

~ Myles Munroe

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

~ Zhuangzi

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

~ Stevie Nicks

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

~ Napoleon Hill

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

~ John Updike

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

~ Sasha Lane

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson