Quotes About Man-made

the megacity that stretched from Newcastle to Wollongong. Ten miles to the south a man-made constellation skimmed rapidly over the sea surface — masthead lights, green starboard light, accommodation and deck lights — the roar of its progress

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

The idea of proposing marriage with a diamond ring seems like a tradition so old, and so steeped in our culture, you'd think it was one of the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. But it's a recent, man-made creation. De Beers brilliantly fostered this shared mythology, taking a relatively abundant, relatively inexpensive item that wasn't selling, and convincing the public over decades that a diamond engagement ring was an indispensable

The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.

Mathematical truth is not determined arbitrarily by the rules of some 'man-made' formal system, but has an absolute nature, and lies beyond any such system of specifiable rules. Support for the Platonic viewpoint ...was an important part of Godel's initial motivations.

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

The truth is that most photographs taken of people are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

Although Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning of the existence of man-made climate change.

I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.

Now that I was living closer to nature, I realized that this was the real world, very different from the man-made world of automobiles, computers and skyscrapers. Man was a god of sorts in his own sphere, but on a lovely mountainside he is no more important than an ant—and not half as industrious!

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, "I will hasten my work in its time" (D&C 88:73).

The commissioning of the Kaleshwaram project, a man-made wonder, in record time has invited global attention.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

It's beautiful, as long as you concentrate on the landscape and the birds, because everything man-made there is ugly.

Weatherborne folk-memories whistle down chimneys, fell fences, tear tiles from roofs, and bang at back doors. The wild is out there, just outside. We know, just as all of our ancestors knew, the power and the might of nature beyond the confines of our man-made world.

All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

I taught world history. I understand there was an Ice Age... seasons come and seasons go. I do not believe the world's going to end because of the 2 percent man-made greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. And even if it were, we're not going to stop it.

religion was a dead, man-made thing, and at the heart of Christianity was something else entirely—God himself, alive.

Further evidence for the man-made nature of gods comes from their evolutionary history. It is a little-known fact, but gods evolve.

Nuclear power presses a number of psychological buttons—fear of poisoning, ease of imagining catastrophes, distrust of the unfamiliar and the man-made—and the dread has been amplified by the traditional Green movement and its dubiously "progressive" supporters.