Man Quotes

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

~ Gore Vidal

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

~ Michelangelo Antonioni

It's not about having a plethora of suits, but having a few good ones. It's all about fit. The contour of your body. If your shoulders are broad, you shouldn't have shoulder pads. If you're not a big man, you shouldn't have extra space. I think it's definitely worth having it properly fitted.

~ Trey Songz

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

~ Alexei Sayle

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

~ John F. Kennedy

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

~ Annie Besant

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

~ Charles Sturt

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

~ Majel Barrett

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

~ John F. Kennedy

This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.

~ Morten Tyldum

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

~ Erykah Badu

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

~ Mike Shinoda

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

~ Tom Chatfield

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

~ Malik Bendjelloul

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

~ Voltaire

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

~ Lewis Mumford

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

~ Joseph Roux

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

~ Saint Basil

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

~ Albert Einstein

Character is what a man is in the dark.

~ Dwight L. Moody

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

~ Thomas Huxley

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

~ Robert Staughton Lynd

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

~ Boris Pasternak

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

~ Herodotus

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

~ Horace

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

~ James Cash Penney

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

~ William Feather

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

~ Jean Giraudoux

As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

~ Harriet Tubman

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

~ Christopher Fowler

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

~ Robert Wilson

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

~ Charles Dickens

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

~ Jamie Foxx

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

~ Fabrizio Moreira