Quotes of: Ordinary-man Keyword

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

A. J. Liebling

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Roman Payne

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

Richard Wright

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Sonny Bono

Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

Michael Riedel

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Mike Singletary

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

C. JoyBell C.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Phillips Brooks

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Michael Moriarty

I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn't be a man at all if he let someone steal his family's assets.

Sean Quinn

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Nathan Myhrvold

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Joe Biden

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Joel Madden

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Tom T. Hall