Top 100 Quotes About Le Mans
#1. I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx
#2. 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
Jenson Button
#3. My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
Mario Andretti
#4. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.
Allan McNish
#5. Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.
Tom Kristensen
#6. Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
Tom Kristensen
#7. My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
Carroll Shelby
#8. The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
Tom Kristensen
#9. I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
Tom Kristensen
#10. I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.
Michael Trucco
#11. Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.
Tom Kristensen
#12. Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning
Si Robertson
#13. And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
#14. Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
Baltasar Gracian
#15. In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.
Mart Crowley
#17. You can tell a lot by the size of a mans library
Chloe Neill
#18. And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised ...
Lauren Kate
#20. There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
Spencer W. Kimball
#22. Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.
Robert Recorde
#23. I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
Willa Cather
#24. It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
Francis Bacon
#25. It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
Abba Eban
#26. However hard man tries, he is not able to make his life perfect and filled with harmony.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
Barnett Newman
#29. The quickest way to get a mans attention, is to no longer want it.
Candace Mumford
#30. And he every man is the arbiter of his own virtues but let no man prescribe for another mans wellbeing and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair its not even time
William Faulkner
#31. Now, late at night, she lay in bed alone, wishing the feel of the sheets on her body were the feel of a mans hands instead.
Lauren Royal
#32. Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#33. A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.
Adrian Rogers
#34. For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.
John F. Kennedy
#35. I'm curious to see, now that beauty is gone, what will be reflected in a mans eyes.
Sapphire.
#37. If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#38. Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
Sigmund Freud
#39. True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.
Ludwig Von Mises
#40. If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.'-Sirius black.
J.K. Rowling
#41. A Mans smile may lead ones way but a women's smile helps brighten the hearts of humanity everyday
Timothy Pina
#42. Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
George Herbert
#43. While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.
Maya Angelou
#44. If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#46. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
#47. The mans prostate was so encased by the tumour that doctors couldn't even see it. The tumour was wrapped around the gland ... when he started out his PSA was ... around 5,000 ... it eventually normalised ... and he is alive and well now..and I think his PSA count is like 3 or 4.
Richard M. Schulze
#48. Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.
Adolf Hitler
#49. Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
William Blake
#50. At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.
C.S. Lewis
#51. Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.
Mark Kurlansky
#52. How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
Jon Krakauer
#54. A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
#56. Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.
Glen Duncan
#57. WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.
Herbert Wind
#58. Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.
Thomas Sankara
#59. Some women are like roses
Ohh how beautiful you blossom
Yet have too many thorns to ever be held.
Jasmine Mans
#60. Love is the sweetest, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
George R R Martin
#61. A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
Theresa Villiers
#62. I even fold this mans underwear and I like it!
Alex Riley
#63. Nothing smells worse than a mans restroom in a bar, well that's what the lady told me when I called her number from the wall.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#64. Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans
William Blake
#65. To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent
"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze
"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.
Deepak Chopra
#67. The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
Ludwig Von Mises
#68. Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. The way a man treats a woman, he explianed, is a relfection of his relationship with God. Thats why i say, a woman is the proving ground for a man. You can determine a mans quiality by watching him with a woman
Eric Ludy
#70. The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
Viktor E. Frankl
#71. Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
Myles Munroe
#73. Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover
William Blake
#74. If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so.
Rachel L. Demeter
#76. A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.
Harriet Morgan
#77. Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
Arthur Miller
#79. Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Mans knowledge of himself has not kept pace with his knowledge of the physical world.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. 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
#81. They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came
Tim O'Brien
#82. We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected ... A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.
Grover Cleveland
#83. Nd she a star, to outshine all the suns of mans days.
Celia Mcmahon
#84. It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset Maugham
#85. A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
John G. Lake
#87. Not eternal is the world of appearances, not eternal ,anything but eternal are our garments and the style of our hair ,our bodies themselves.I am wearing a rich mans garments because i have been a rich man but i am no rich man anymore what i will be tomorrow i dont know
Hermann Hesse
#88. In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#89. In his autumn before the winter comes mans last mad surge of youth.
Sophocles
#90. It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on
I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on.
Slim Thug
#91. My only constant is the black hair tie around my wrist. No mans gonna be there for me like this hair tie has. No ones presence is gonna be as reassuring.
Unknown
#92. Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.
Jill Johnston
#93. The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
William Moyers
#94. That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.
Louis De Bernieres
#96. The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
Mencius
#97. I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
Frederick Douglass
#98. An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
Joyce Cary
#99. Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#100. To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
Abraham Lincoln
