Scott Carpenter Quotes

#1. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.

Anne Ursu

#2. The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

Scott Carpenter

#3. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Scott Carpenter

#4. I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

Teddy Sears

#5. We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights ... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name of that most collectivist of concepts: The Common Good.

Jonathan D. Morris

#6. At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

Scott Carpenter

#7. Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

Scott Carpenter

#8. To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands
or gets down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Derek Theler

#10. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

Neil Marshall

#11. This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

Ursula Burns

#12. A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

Scott Carpenter

#14. My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Alonzo Mourning

#15. Work eagerly.
Work effectually.
Work energetically.
Work enduringly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Scott Carpenter

#17. If all you do is sit and read, all you get is smart and soft.

Scott Carpenter

#18. Unlike other dictators, Stalin and his satraps never made the mistake of believing themselves beloved
on the contrary they saw plots under every stone.

Anna Reid