Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

Carl Sagan

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Bertrand Russell

No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

William Shakespeare

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

William Shakespeare

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

B. F. Skinner

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

David Kelley

He was just one of those really larger-than-life folks. He was so successful because he valued loyalty and played by the rules.

Jon Gruden

We hope it can grow. We got our first glimpse of what these guys can do wire-to-wire.

Matt Hasselbeck

My teammates and I have just seen a glimpse of what it would be like to win a world championship. And as hard as it is right now -- 'cause it's hard right now -- we know what needs to happen to get it done, and I can promise you that we are all going to do everything we can do to get it done next year. Thank you for your support this year!

Ben Long

I was flabbergasted. I was trying to get a glimpse of him, and there he was, sprawled out on the ground right there.

Chogyam Trungpa

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

Lea Thompson

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Bob Kendrick

This will provide a glimpse of what life was like in the Negro Leagues.

Dean Koontz

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Anaxagoras

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

James Herbert

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

James Heath

We can potentially get the computational power of 100 workstations on the size of a grain of sand. We'll do it in steps; I'm hopeful that we can do it in about a decade.

Phil Funkenbusch

There is a grain of truth to every character, but it's overboard, which I really love.

Jeff Flake

We've got to take some of these definitions with a huge grain of salt.

Author unknown

I always take life with a grain of salt, ...plus a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila.

Chanakya

He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy

Russian Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth

Gregg Laskoski

We need to take it with a grain of salt when it comes to speculation of what may happen in the future.

Ken Beck

Land is a commodity, just like grain or anything else. And the time may come when they might want to 1031 their way out of here, too.

Gillian Jacobs

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.