Quotes of: Being-a-man Keyword

I am... me. No matter what I say or do, I'm still me. That 's what Satozuki told me once. The things I feel, the things I do... Being a vampire, Being a man, being betrayed by my mother... when all those things come together, they make up "me." But n...

Midnight Secretary, Vol. 05

Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised by the fact that the reverend is first and foremost a human being? Surprised by the fact that eve...

The Queen of Bedlam

I felt sick with hatred then for my own people. If you had asked me why I hated them, I might have said that I hated them for being so loud and for being so drunk. But now I believe I hated them for suddenly being my people, not just other people. In...

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Cold Days

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.

Simon Greenleaf

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

Steve Carell

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

Emily VanCamp

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Fred Tomaselli

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E. W. Howe

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

A Gentlemen

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

James Harrington

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Lord North

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Whitney Houston

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Andrew Garfield

O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must per...

Horseradish

I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is...

Envy

Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

Good Behavior: Being a Study of Certain Types of Civility

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Gone Girl

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his urethra. If you hurry, you can make it to mine in under 15 dollars. I mean minutes.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You