Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Albert Einstein

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

Albert Einstein

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Albert Einstein

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Even a fool is wise after an event.

Albert Einstein

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Robbie Robertson

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

A.J. Ellison

Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess he didn't realize it would take off so well. It gave me something to do with my free time and it taught me to be accountable.

George Strait

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

George Tenet

another five years to have the kind of clandestine service our country needs.

Jerry Leiber

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.

Glenn Tipton

Each country has its own character, but heavy metal fans all over the world have a lot in common. It's fantastic.

Jon Lovitz

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

George Bernard Shaw

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Galway Kinnell

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

Franz Kafka

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

Franz Kafka

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

Franz Kafka

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Elvis Costello

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Harrison Ford

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.