Top 1200 Repo Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

The truly wise man is he who believes the Bible against the opinions of any man. If the Bible says one thing, and any body of men says another, the wise man will decide, "This book is the Word of him who cannot lie".

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.