A Quotes
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“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.”
“A man can be a hero in any profession”
“A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.”
“A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.”
“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.”
Source: What it Takes to be Number One
“A man can be beaten in two ways, if he gives up or he dies.”
“A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who's around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.”
“A man can be converted when convinced.”
“A man can be defined as an animal that carries a pocket handkerchief”
“A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.”
“A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. Thats why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.”
“A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.”
“a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something”
Source: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“A man can be honest in any sort of skin.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.”
Source: Valdez Is Coming: A Novel
“A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“A man can be rich as long as he reads.”
“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.”
Source: West with the Night
“A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.”
“A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.”
“A man can be standing on the outside and completely imprisoned on the inside."
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints. It is the presence of an inner strength that no circumstance can take away.”
Source: Man Still Standing & Free: Rediscovering True Manhood Through God
“A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.”
“A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.”
Source: Poems ... Third edition
“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”
“a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.”
Source: The Stone Field
“A man can build a home but it needs a woman to run a home.”
“A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.”
“A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.”
“A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.”
“A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.”
Source: Reprisal
“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”
“A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.”
“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility. You soon detect mock humility.”
“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.”
“A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.”
“A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.”
Source: The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull
“A man can die but once.”
“A man can die of failure, Fitz. Do you know that? Once, I told you, the fight isn't over until you've won.”
Source: Royal Assassin
“A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.”
“A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.”
Source: East of Eden
“A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.”
“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
“A man can do all things if he will.”
“A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.”