Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lindbergh

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of such a place?

Charles Lindbergh

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Charles Lyell

So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason,-and lastly the improvable reason of Man himself, presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

Charles Lyell

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Charles Lyell

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.

Charles Lyell

Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.

Charles Lyell

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

Charles Lindbergh

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Charles Lindbergh

True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?

Charles Lindbergh

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Charles Lindbergh

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

Charles Lindbergh

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

Charles Krauthammer

In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

Charles Lamb

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

Charles Lamb

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

Aisha Tyler

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

Aime Cesaire

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Aime Cesaire

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems ...

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

Ai Weiwei

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

Bob Newhart

The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Blake Shelton

Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.

Blake Shelton

Never touch another man's button.

Bo Burnham

For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

Bo Burnham

When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.

Bo Burnham

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.

Billy Idol

When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

Billy Eichner

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Billy Joel

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Billy Joel

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

Billy Joel

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

Bill Richardson

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.