Man Quotes

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

~ Henry Adams

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

~ Ian Mcewan

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

~ Stacy Schiff

I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

~ André Maurois

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

~ George Woodcock

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

~ Sri Aurobindo

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

~ Linda Hunt

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

~ Betty Dodson

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

~ James C. Maxwell

Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?

~ Allen Iverson

I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

~ Gordon Ramsay

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

~ Dwight L. Moody

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

~ Toni Morrison

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

~ André Maurois

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.

~ Louise Erdrich

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

~ Chris Kyle

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

~ James Nesbitt

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

~ Zakk Wylde

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

~ Zig Ziglar

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

~ Susan Sarandon

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

~ Eugene Levy

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

~ Bobby Brown

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

~ Ozzy Osbourne

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

~ Willow Shields

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

~ Sam Brownback

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

~ Sting

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

~ Robert M. Hutchins

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

~ Tom Delay

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

~ Adolf Loos

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

~ Ayn Rand

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

~ Lord Byron

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

~ Martin Filler

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

~ Tadao Ando

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

~ Paul Bettany

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

~ Mario Botta

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

~ Frei Otto