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“I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.”

Men Should Book Country Certain Winning Fans Changed Brother Arms Prize Old Man Coen Brothers Prize Winning

Author:Zack Snyder

“In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.”

Men Inspiration Certain Father Term Streets Style New York Stones Sexuality Suits Range Masculinity Handsome Sharon Handsome Men

Author:Rachael Taylor

“Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

Men Believe War Hands Certain Sides Issues Peaceful Disputes Sincerely

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

Thinking Men Certain Leadership Mistake Goodness Great Men Virtuous

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe”

Knows Men Certain Justice Son Pride Died My Son Denied Tribes Daddy Free Man

Author:Bob Teague

“Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.”

Men Needs Certain Brain Cards

Author:Jason Babin

“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.”

Men Age Certain Teach Picks Our Society Unmarried Personal Failure

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“The man or woman who is born of God, who is regenerate, simply does not and cannot continue-abide-in a life of sin. They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. It is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.”

Ifs Men Way May Doe Has Beens Certain Born Sin He Man Tests Born Again

Author:Martyn

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”

People Men World Believe Certain Father Class Talent Industry Birth Angel Rose Vanity Folly Sentiments Boast Apes Ancestry Shabby

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.”

Men Looks Sometimes Certain Black White Fine Comfortable Suits Ties Designer Brown Chocolate Black And White Uniforms Jeans Casual Variables Borderline Loafers

Author:Peter York

“Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.”

Men Certain Business Knowing Failing Promise Financial Finance

Author:E. W. Howe

“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Faces Certain Streets Dying Cry Emotional Empty Died Silly Newspapers Remembered Numbness

Book:Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

“God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.”

Knows Men Wanted Certain Simple Animal Judging Creatures Goodness Perfection Essence Infinite Embrace Creator

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.”

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

Men Giving Doe Wisdom Care Certain Knowing Wise Trouble Conditions Danger Willing Crisis Worthwhile Nicomachean Ethics Life Crisis

Author:Aristotle

“But certain winds will make men's temper bad.”

Men Certain Wind Temper

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.”

Thinking Men Should Mind Whole Might Certain Order Capable All Things Intellect Wit Esteem Founders Measuring Presumption Surpassing Commemoration

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”

Men Feelings Certain Poet Ought Pure Degrees Permanent Sane Great Poet Rectify Consonants

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.”

Men May Moments Certain Every Man Theme Peculiar Complaints Strain Lamentation

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?”

Knows Men Whole Artist Certain Leaving Vanity Leisure Trifles Quietness

Author:Leonardo da Vinci