A Quotes
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“A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.”
“A man can only hurt a heart, till it loves him.”
Source: Letters to Mira!
“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”
Source: The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
“A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Book of Thoughts, Health and Body, Character, Purpose, Achievement, Visions and Ideals (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.”
“A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.”
“A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“A man can preach no better than he prays.”
“a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.”
Source: Mystics and Zen Masters
“A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.”
Source: Emperor of Thorns
“A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.”
“A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.”
Source: Next
“A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.”
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.”
“A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.”
“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.”
Source: The Story of San Michele
“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”
Source: The Story of San Michele
“A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.”
Source: The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness
“A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.”
“A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.”
Source: Johnny Got His Gun
“A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?”
Source: Where the Heart Is
“A man can't pull himself up by his own bootstraps no matter how hard he tries, Cort had lectured when Roland, Cuthbert, Alain and Jamie had been little more than toddlers.”
Source: The Dark Tower
“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”
“A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.”
“A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.”
Source: A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill
“A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.”
“A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
“A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.”
Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess
“A man can't ask for much more than the chance to make a difference in his chosen field of work. Politics is my vocation. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this great country of ours. I know I am a better person for it.”
“A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.”
Source: The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
“A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.”
“A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.”
Source: The Dark Tower and Other Stories
“A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
“A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.”
“A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…
“A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.”
“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”
“A man can't just sit around.”
“A man can't retire his experience.”
“A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.”
“A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?”
“A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.”
Source: The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne
“A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.”
“A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.”
“A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays