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