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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

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. — Ralph Steadman

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.

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

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. — Evan Esar

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet. — Jeremy Renner

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors? — Phil Rickman

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not. — D.H. Lawrence

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

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. — Thomas More

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 idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over. — John Lydon

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. — Euripides

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

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

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not. — Sylvia Plath

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

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

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

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection. — Criss Jami

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

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

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. — E. M. Forster

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings. — Swami Vivekananda

In the swastika, the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work. — Adolf Hitler

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. — Dean Koontz

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

Calling a man a god did not elevate the man, it only diminished the idea of godhood. — Orson Scott Card

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed. — John Steinbeck

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her. — Bauvard

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it. — Oscar Wilde

Yet I am stuck in the idea of romance, a dreamer; I want to actually fall in love with a man, then marry him — Ottilie Weber

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. — Austin O'Malley

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [ ... ] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming. — Roy Spencer

Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man. — Michael Chabon

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way. — Jake Gyllenhaal

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. — Djuna Barnes

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. — Katherine Howe

'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man! — Dave Grohl

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself. — Richard Steele

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying. — Abel Hermant

this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival. — Erich Fromm

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. — Hippolyte Taine

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it. — Pharrell Williams

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. — John Gray

No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience. — George Eliot

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary. — Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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