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No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. — Thurman Arnold

I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants. — Soseki Natsume

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life. — Bill Nighy

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. — Sydney J. Harris

The accomplished man lives in silence and dies in silence. Then their thoughts work in someone else. But the idea that they come back is nonsense. — Shri Ranjit Maharaj

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer — Errol Flynn

I had no idea what I was speaking of, but only knew I must sound confident. Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear. Odda — Bernard Cornwell

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it. — Oren Arnold

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all. — Idries Shah

Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless. — George Eliot

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. — E. M. Forster

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. — Brooks Atkinson

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea. — James Hillman

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything. — Kim Il-sung

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God. — Elbert Hubbard

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] — Francis Crick

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. — Louis L'Amour

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?"
"I've no idea. — Alastair Reynolds

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. — John Steinbeck

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. — Harper Lee

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. — Holbrook Jackson

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms — Rabindranath Tagore

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. — John D. Rockefeller

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice — Boris Pasternak

If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out? — Oladosu Feyikogbon

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about — Michael Grant

I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. — Joe Hill

Doc's idea of "clarifyin' a point of contention" came awful close to spitting in a man's eye. — Mary Doria Russell

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering. — Marie Lu

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go. — Paul Valery

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king. — Henry Ford

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. — Jean-Luc Godard

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish. — Jean Baudrillard

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it. — F.F. Bruce

Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. — Oscar Wilde

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. — Aaron Hill

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport. — Maria Edgeworth

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. — Theodore Parker

This school is based on the idea that a man who can think correctly will automatically behave morally - or — Robert A. Heinlein

There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have. — Lisa Kleypas

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. — John F. Kennedy

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it. — Prince Philip

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it. — H.L. Mencken

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous. — Marquis De Lafayette

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea. — Thom Browne

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development
— C.S. Lewis

I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented. — Darynda Jones

When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public. — Anthony Trollope

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera. — Giles Duley

The idea of being pleasured by a female lover intrigues you but I am not sure that you like such company otherwise. You are very much a man's woman. — Noelle Mack

When a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging. — Sharon Kay Penman

Forward in time, the man named Konan didn't match my idea of a detective. — Natsuki Mamiya

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever. — Meles Zenawi

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime. — Bruce Springsteen

Is God a man or a woman?
God could be an armadillo. I have no idea. — Sherman Alexie

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. — Hugh Hefner

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man. — Jerry Hall

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other. — Javier Bardem

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
You can kill a man, but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto

She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late? — Patrick Modiano

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. — Benjamin Disraeli

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. — Isaac Newton

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species. — Arthur Koestler

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. — George Orwell

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea. — Georges Doriot

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic. — Nick Offerman

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. — R.C. Sproul

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night. — Carrie Snow

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. — Ayn Rand

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor. — Anthony Jeselnik

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. — George Berkeley

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea). — Richard Dawkins

If you want to communicate an idea to a man's brain, talk to him through his pecker. It's like an ear horn, y'all. — Kresley Cole

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter. — Carl Sandburg

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality. — Christina Stead

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C.S. Lewis

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. — William Faulkner

Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another. — Melissa Blue

Man is an idea, and a precious small
idea, once he turns his back on love. And
that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love. — Albert Camus

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task) ... — Garcilaso De La Vega

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind. — Horace Pippin

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. — Tom Mison