Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Henry Miller

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Marilyn Manson

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

George Osborne

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Lisa Unger

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

Sydney J. Harris

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Veronica Roth

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

Tim Ferriss

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Arsene Wenger

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

Bill Gates

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.