Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Aristotle

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Amy Lowell

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Amy Lee

If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy

Amy Lee

You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

Amy Poehler

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

Amy Poehler

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

Ally Carter

There are aspectsof this life-- of this world-- from which you can never walk away. Ever. The fact that almost everything you say to almost everyone you love for the rest of your life will be a lie is one of them.

Ally Carter

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Pete Johnson

We've got 10 men working on the Discovery, but we could use six more.

John le Carre

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

Henry David Thoreau

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Jamelia

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm the glue that keeps it all together. I'm the nucleus of an entertainment family. My day-to-day is making decisions to keep life above water.

Gaston Bachelard

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

Gaston Bachelard

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

Hillary Clinton

I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.

Hillary Clinton

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

Ernest Hemingway

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

Erykah Badu

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.