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I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man!
— Joseph Merrick
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
— Samuel Johnson
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
— Nikolai Gogol
It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.
— Edward J. Renehan Jr.
That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.
— Rod Steiger
To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life's meaning. Fortunately,
— C. G. Jung
I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.
— John Steinbeck
A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.
— Seneca.
Imagine the joy of that - of not being beneath that big thumb. Imagine no longer being a beetle, but being a man.
— Victor Robert Lee
Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived.
— Samuel Johnson
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
— Carew Papritz
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
— Blaise Pascal
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
— Bliss Carman
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
— Samuel
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
— William S. Burroughs
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
— Millard Fillmore
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
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.
— Maria Conchita Alonso
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
— Victor Hugo
And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
— Angela Johnson
I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
— Action Bronson
Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.
— David Haye
I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.
— Eva Longoria
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
— Will Rogers
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.
— George Lois
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
— Daniel O'Connell
Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.
— Susan Faludi
Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today ... and there are other pressures.
— Dylan Moran
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening ... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
— Bob Corker
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
— Quentin Crisp
The Patrician was not a man you shook a finger at unless you wanted to end up being able to count only to nine.
— Terry Pratchett
Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it. — Abraham Verghese
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
— Loretta Chase
A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.
— Lawrence LeShan
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
— Mark Twain
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
— Jane Austen
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
— Lajos Kossuth
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
— Peter O'Toole
It was clear that the man was no fool. But what was the use of not being a fool if you acted like this?
— Saul Bellow
Not every great man is a grand human being.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
— Alexander Pope
I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.
— Lynda Barry
I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err ... being or whatever it is you are, person! she fumbled.
— Madison Thorne Grey
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
— Stefan Zweig
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
— Tullian Tchividjian
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Because a man's greatest fear is not being a man, something that never occurs to a woman (not being a woman, that is).
— Paulo Coelho
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
— Miguel De Unamuno
This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed.
— Victor LaValle
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.
— Corneliu E Giurgea
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
— Gertrude Atherton
Man is a social being; it's not surprising we love social proofs, it sells brands fast
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
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
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
— John Myers Myers
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
— Petrus Borel
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
— Samuel Johnson
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
— Robert Bly
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
— James M. Barrie
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
— Confucius
Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
— Steve Carell
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
— Lord Chesterfield
Deep down the fear of a man who lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping away, dying, being destroyed, beyond any recall.
— Alan Paton
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
— Theodore Roosevelt
What's the point? To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for a narrow-minded or embittered man.
— Anton Chekhov
A man who cheats on the mother of his children, the woman with whom he works and to whom he said I love you, is not worthy of being a friend.
— Joko Ono
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
— Shana Alexander
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
— George MacDonald
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.
— K.J. Parker
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
— Emily VanCamp
Now you're being ridiculous. If your mom changed into a carrot, I'd think she'd change back before someone ate her, werewolf or not.
— Jazz Feylynn
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.
— Andrew Lang
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
— Mencius
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ...
— George Meredith
It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.
— Erich Fromm
A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful.
— M.F. Moonzajer
A kindred spirit? Perhaps
if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being. — Doug Dorst
if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being. — Doug Dorst
At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.
— Brenda Perlin