Top 1200 Average Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

For the average person at home, they should know they don't need a celebrity trainer. It's all about your habits outside of the gym.

People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man with the biggest arm. At the man, with the greatest charm, the man in Chicago who will do harm to the guy three doors down. Whatcha gonna do, when you know who? How ya gonna deal, with the man of steel? How ya gonna react to Sonnen's attack?

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

If one person from their fraternity is a little above average, they are celebrated as if they are the most gifted individuals. And who is enhancing their cause? It's a section of the media.

It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

To be a real man, I think you have to be supportive of each other and to be a real woman you have to be supportive of your man, and the man has to do the same thing, only then he would be a real man.

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College - the worst in history.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine - until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and ... everything is for the happiness of man - and I submit to you that this is unchristian.

The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.

Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart of what happens when man meets God on the mountain in the wilderness. Ultimately, it is the very life of man, man himself as living righteously, that is the true worship of God, but life only becomes real life when it receives its form from looking toward God.

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

The man I was when I was 18 and 19, when I really wasn't a man, is not the man I am now.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.