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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.
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
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
— D.H. Lawrence
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
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
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
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
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
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
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
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
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
No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.
— George Eliot
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
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
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
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development— C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
