Quotes of: Being-a-man Keyword

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

One Man Caravan

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over...

Little Dorrit: Volume 1

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden ...

Candace Bushnell

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people...

Sister Souljah

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Sebastian Coe

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)

The Man of My Dreams

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Tom Sizemore

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

The Martian Chronicles

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Annette O'Toole

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Robin G. Collingwood

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Sydney Smith

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Gertrude Stein

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Jack Nicklaus

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall b...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

Gilbert Hernandez

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.