Quotes of: Being-a-man Keyword

A six-fingered man went to give me a high-five, and I got confused, so I left him hanging. By a noose.

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

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Theology of Play

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't kno...

Kathleen Hanna

Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the idea that not-having is the premise for...

Erich Fromm

Bob Curtin: Remember what you said back in Tampico about having to carry that old man on our backs? Fred C. Dobbs: That was when I took him for an ordinary human being, not part goat.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Bunny: Hey Junior, you never smoked any shit? Junior: That's right, dude. See, y'all been trying to keep the black man down, and string him out on that shit. But the time be's comin, my man, when the black man? Throw that yoke off. Simple - free your...

Platoon

The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not...

Man's Search for Meaning

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

Richard Diebenkorn

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Sextus Propertius

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

Munia Khan

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Nolan Bushnell

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Soren Kierkegaard

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Unser

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Daniel Webster

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

Geoffrey Rush

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Samantha Bond

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

Jonathan Winters

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

Eva Mendes

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

Emily Robison