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“I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."”

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.”

Men Want Book Quality Red Bus Racing Breathless Quality Control

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“There was an article in the New York Times that said that young men can't maintain healthy relationships because they're so influenced by pornography and what they see on the screen. It's something to be talked about.”

Men Said Young New York Healthy Screens Young Man Articles Pornography New York Times Healthy Relationship

Author:Carey Mulligan

“It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.”

Ifs Men Film Horror Murder Screens Naked Freak Horror Film

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

Men Political Culture Democracy Equal Diversity Claims Social Justice Notion Witty Equality Arise Political Science Equal Respect

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.”

Thinking Men World Stories Games Space Moved Moved On Invaders Pacs Space Invaders

Author:Duncan Jones

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.”

Men Wells Wish Friendship Perfect Perfection Excellence Perfect Friendship

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.”

“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”

Men Feels Persons Moments Anger Praise Angry Length Right Person Right Moment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Said Two Done Would Be Wanted Past Millions Months Deserve Convinced Convincing My Past Two Months Macho Why Me Hairspray

Author:John Travolta

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

Men Way Mean Different Government Happiness Form Political Happy Inner Peace Different Ways Forms Of Government Great Happiness What Is Happiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

Men Way Mean States Reason Lying Choices Concerned Excellence Determine Determined Practicals Relative Moral Excellence

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!”

Men Animal Forever Air Sea Calling Mountain Gun Brave Teeth Dumb Beast Territory Animal Rights Savages Greedy Vicious Jungle Ruthless Brave Man Snares

Author:Adela Popescu

“This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.”

Ifs Men Want Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops

Author:Yelawolf

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”

Men Firsts Kids School Individual Realizing Five Six

Author:Yelawolf

“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.”

Ifs Men May Long Doe Has Beens Said Remember Faces Forget Danger Ready Circumstances Long Time Lays Profit Sentiments

Author:Confucius

“For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.”

Men Should Wisdom Wise Careful Foolish Be Careful Foolishness One Word Being Wise

Book:The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

“Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.”

Men Heart Hands Christ Darkness Land Rings Bells Valiant

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.”

Men Said Soul House Lord He Man Evolution Clean Brutes Debtors

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.”

Men May Mean Ends Ears Soldier Quitting Posts This Day Plato

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.”

Men Together Grows Causes Bounds Harm Miserable Womanhood Distinctive Dwarfs Dwarves Godlike

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.”

Men Lasts He Man Adversity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”

Men Littles Practice Dog Stranger Envy Multitudes Bark

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.”

Men Voice Air Serious Ears Concerts Flattery Exclusion Serious Business

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.”

Thinking Men Would Be Kindness He Man Gratitude Grateful Receiving Be Grateful Repaying

Author:Seneca the Younger

“What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?”

Men Felt Insane Insanity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Motivational Turns Advantage Regard Thyself

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.”

Men Trying Fire Gold Brave Misery Brave Man

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.”

Men Trying He Man Unfortunate

Author:Seneca the Younger

“To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.”

Men Purpose Heaven Born Mates Matrimony Obeying

Book:The Maid of Orleans, and Other Poems

Source: The Maid of Orleans, and Other Poems

“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.”

Men Wind Masters Balls Storm

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.”

Men May Done Life Is One Thing Achieve He Man Regret Ambition All Things Things In Life Harvest Reap Barren My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

Men Should Use Common Special Property Disposition Benevolence Benevolent Legislators

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.”

Men Art Made Art Is Interpreter

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.”

Men Believe May Doe Possibility He Man

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.”

Men Moments Conversation Deceiving Lively Exaggeration Practise Sophistry Auditors

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.”

Men States Poor Party Land Brother Brave Unity Great Men Spoil Poor Man

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”

Men Together Force Truth Is Errors Deeds

Book:My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief

Source: My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief

“Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.”

Knows Men Reason Universe Direct Relation Instruments

Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.”

Men Needs Earth Christ Teaching Peace On Earth

Book:A Confession: And, What I Believe

Source: A Confession: And, What I Believe

“The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.”

Men Firsts Morality Ethics Bases Every Man Recognition Sanctity

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.”

Men Should Mean Art Real Law Influence Activity Authority Police Institutions Court Peaceful Operations Factories Joyous Charitable Inspection Law Courts

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”

“A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.”

Men Doe Faith Bargains Bargaining

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'.”

Men Should May Mean Blood Capable Opponents Shed Rude Disputes Vindicated Mean Man

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.”

Knows Men Love Heart Greatness Judging Know Me True Greatness

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.”

Knows Men Heart Persons Matter Joy Opinion Sorrow Conversation Creatures Clean Conversion Denial Makers Godly Cleanliness Clean Heart

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.”

Ifs Knows Men Asks Simple Modern Return Men And Women Intelligent Simplicity Deeds Sensual Ask Me Enjoyment Artificial Simple Life Modern Art Artificial Life

Author:Mahatma Gandhi