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“The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.”

Men Mean Children Doe Film Cry My Children Crush I Love Him Anchorman

Author:Meryl Streep

“Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']”

Knows Men Doe Stills States Done Eye Suffering Moral Land Cry Fool Bears Honor Threat Blow Spread Pity France Milk Villain Cowardice Cheeks Mischief Brows Banner Discerning Helm

Author:William Shakespeare

“We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.”

“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”

Men World Firsts Has Beens Might Lasts Silence Gone Cry Bird Woods Boundaries Indifferent Might Have Been Ants Uneasy Crawling Gone Away Myrtle Thrush

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.”

Men Running Money Cry Benefits Built Fairs Dear Nonsense Percentages Railroads

Author:William Henry Vanderbilt

“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.²” “Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth “You owe me” Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..””

“a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries”

Author:William James

“The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.”

Source: Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays

“on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.”

Men Nature Sky Cry Moon Empty Instant Climbing Lamentation

Book:The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

“In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”

Men Mind Voice Cry Every Man Oppression Infant Bans Thames Sweepers Innocence And Experience

Book:Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.”

Men Suffering Mankind Cry Ought

Author:Albert Camus

“That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.”

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.”

Men World Cry He Man Offers Travel Fruit Pity Barren

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.”

Men Children House Left Cry Office Dresses Humble Motherhood Welfare Parks Be Humble Your Smile

Book:Like the iris of an eye

Source: Like the iris of an eye

“Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale”

Men Care Pain Money Cry He Man Void Strife Sigh Splendid Purses Oysters Ale

Author:John Phillips

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down”

Thinking Men Hard Facts Light Care Moving Prayer Cry Tears Praying Letters Scales Climbing Answered Prayers Climbing Up

Author:Nick Cave

“When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”

Men Children Cry Holy Old Man Unborn Holy Places Crying Child

Book:This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

Source: This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems

“A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.”

Men Poor Poverty Cry Conscience Hunger Stealing Stomach Craving Poor Man Appease

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.”

“You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.”

Men Way Moments Eye Jobs Talking Cry Knees

Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.”

“Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.”

“I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.”

Men Names Education Dying Cry Taught Ease Old Man Usefulness Bark

Author:W. D. Snodgrass

“In the battlefield men grapple each other and die; The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven, While ravens and kites peck at human entrails, Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.”

Men Humans Dies Heaven Tree Cry Horse Flight Branches Veteran Battlefields Ravens Veterans Day Kites Dead Trees

Author:Li Bai

“Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.”

Knows Men Mean Young Lying Girl Emotion Teaching Cry Bunch Young Man Be A Man

Author:Trip Lee

“Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have, the friends that of the soul that you share everything, that you witness each other's lives, that you talk their, your, heart out, that you cry with, that you ask money when you need, that.”

Men Needs Heart Soul Age Asks Company Share Cry Witness Acquaintance Buddy Comrade

Author:Isabel Allende

“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.”

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place. And then, here we are with this one, and we are going to that place again. It's just extremely emotional to just have to keep revisiting it, but it can also be therapeutic.”

Thinking Men Want Firsts Cry Emotional Months Tough Chill Altars Therapeutic

Author:Morris Chestnut

“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men”

Men Animal Cry Fields Forests Witness Welfare Beast Animal Rights Scorn Animal Welfare Dens Animal Life Soulless Wildlife Animals

Author:William Inge

“According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!”

Men Self Age Spirit Evil Sin Self Esteem Cry Honor Ultimate Oneself Worthy Esteem Thank God Wretched Deliverance Abasement

Author:John Piper

“...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.”

Men Age Dark Results Cry Died Medical Accepted Old Man Articles Association Threatened Dark Ages Surgeons Infection Pennsylvania Chronicles Expulsion

Author:Paul Douglas

“Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.”

Men Cry Cinema Sentimental

Author:Graham Greene

“If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!”

Ifs Men World Want Should Firsts May Stills Fighting Speak Laughing Cry This World Angry Dare Atmosphere Boldness Speaks Out

Author:Lu Xun

“"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.”

Men Cry Arms Singing Gigs Grown Man Unison Open Arms

Author:Guy Garvey

“It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.”

Men Made Home Christian Left Church Common Behinds Cry Divine Jew Distinction Temples Ecstasy Sufi Mystic Mosques Synagogue Sufi Mystic

Author:Karen Armstrong

“The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.”

Men Character Moral Roles Cry Drama Clothes Picks Notion Available Managers Agency One Man Amusement Consuming Expertise Emperor Therapists Rags Kindred

Book:After Virtue

Source: After Virtue

“The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow! No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.”

Men Trying May Has Beens Stills Sometimes Matter Moments Seems Past Born Cry Tomorrow Sorrow No Matter What Graves

Author:John R. Rice

“I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.”

Men Used Mother Father Cry Grandma Shameful My Grandma

Author:Michael Silverblatt

“You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.”

Ifs Men Wells Hands Might Film Comedy Cry Assuming Scar Calluses

Author:Ellen Hollman

“The Church and the world and women are crying for men, men who are developing their capacity and talents, who are willing to work and make sacrifices, who will help others achieve happiness and salvation.”

Men World Helping Church Sacrifice Achieve Talent Cry Willing Capacity Salvation Helping Others Developing

Author:D. Todd Christofferson

“I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.”

Thinking Men Writing Age Father Situation Wife Wonderful Car Cry Pure Letters Blue Affair Betrayed Explaining Love Letter

Author:Lou Doillon

“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.”

Knows Men Years Mean Art Wisdom Eye Time Girl Three Hurt Knowledge Worry Wife Cry Listening Promise Husband Clean Wide Thee Cooks Meals Her Eyes Really Mean Sweetest I Promise Eyes Wide Open

Author:Alan Beck

“It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!”

Ifs Men Giving Book Matter Hands Laughing Gone Cry Jokes Slave Dead Man Icy Right Words Pathos Gone Time

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”

Men Wisdom Streets Cry Regard Negligence

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”

“I have far more reasons to rather disbelieve that a man besides me suffers when he cries, yet I have far more sentiments, than those great reasons, to instead weep for his, far less likely, sufferings.”

Men Reason Suffering Cry Sentiments

Author:Kedar Joshi

“A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.”

Men World Mind Feet Cry Possession Conquer Contentment Another World

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series