Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archimedes

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Ayn Rand

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

Bertrand Russell

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Benito Mussolini

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Brian K. Vaughan

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

Brad Barkley

But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Boyd Rice

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Barry Long

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self.

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Busy Philipps

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag.

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.