Quotes and Sayings About Men
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
-- A. R. Ammons -
A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
-- A. R. Gurney -
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
-- A. R. Rahman -
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
-- A. Scott Berg -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
-- A. Street -
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-- Aaron Copland -
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
-- Aaron Hill -
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
-- Aaron Hill -
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
-- Aaron Hill -
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
-- Aaron Hill -
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 -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
-- Aaron Paul -
As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
-- Aaron Siskind -
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
-- Aaron Staton -
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
-- Aaron Tippin -
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
-- Abba Eban
