Be A Man Quotes - Page 8

• Let me burn out for God. After all,
  whatever God may appoint, prayer
  is the great thing. Oh, that I might
  be a man of prayer!

  Henry Martyn

  Prayer, Men, May

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• I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

  Andy Cohen

  Girl, Fighting, Men

  “Top Moments: American Horror Story's Big Shocker and Late Night Responds to Sandy” by Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. November 1, 2012.

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• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  Eli Roth

  Men, Thinking, Brave Face

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Civilization, Machines

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• A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, Men, Years

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.51, Penguin

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• The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Boys, Men, Three

  "Redefining fatherhood: What it means to 'be a man' today" by Joy Jernigan, www.today.com. June 10, 2014.

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• A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

  Pierre Loti

  Men, Seems

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• You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Crush, Men, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

  Patricia Ireland

  Boys, Men, Weight

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• How can I be a man if there is no role model?

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Men, Role Models

  Song: Papa'z Song, 1993

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• There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

  Jenna Elfman

  Men, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Men, Want

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Fighting, Boys

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• All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, War, Rain

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• Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

  Bei Dao

  Mother, Hero, Men

  Bei Dao (1983). “Notes from the City of the Sun: Poems”

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• Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Men, Interesting

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• O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

  Homer

  Sports, Strong, Heart

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

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• In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

  John Berger

  Men, Average, Oil

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• To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Law, Desire

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Architects of Fate”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.

  Laverne Cox

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. "I'm so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Hurt, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.260, Macmillan

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