Quotes of: Being-a-man Keyword

Tom Doniphon: Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. If he's sober, bring him back.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Link Appleyard: The jail's only got one cell, and the lock's broke and I sleep in it.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[last words] Cameraman: You're sure you don't want me to film the trench? Jane Livingstone: No. A trench is a trench. They're all the same.

No Man's Land

Inigo Montoya: Who are you? Man in Black: No one of consequence. Inigo Montoya: I must know... Man in Black: Get used to disappointment. Inigo Montoya: 'kay.

The Princess Bride

Nikola Tesla: You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve.

The Prestige

Billy: I'm scared Poncho. Poncho: Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man. Billy: There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.

Predator

Pat Wheeler: A game-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got? John T. Chance: That's WHAT I got.

Rio Bravo

Brandon Shaw: Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Rope

Ray Charles: Man, you told me if I think pennies, I get pennies. I'm thinking dollars, man.

Ray

Frank Serpico: You know what they say, don't you? If you love a man's garden, you gotta love the man!

Serpico

Edward Ferrars: Colonel Brandon must be a man of great worth and respectability. Elinor Dashwood: Yes, he is the kindest and best of men.

Sense and Sensibility

Rooster Cogburn: I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop.

True Grit

Sergeant Howie: [upon seeing the Wicker Man for the first time] O, God! O, Jesus Christ!

The Wicker Man

Lord Summerisle: [Irritably, to Howie who is disguised as a jester and holding a "bladder" or balloon] Cut some capers, man! Use your bladder!

The Wicker Man

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Paracelsus

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Robert Emmet

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Mircea Eliade

Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

Niecy Nash

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Tony Campolo