Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Robert A. Heinlein

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Stephen Sondheim

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

Swami Vivekananda

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

Tom Robbins

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Rajneesh

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Jared Diamond

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Charles Spurgeon

If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

Dennis Prager

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

Edmund Burke

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edgar Allan Poe

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Ambrose Bierce

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

William Shakespeare

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Raymond Williams

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Victoria Woodhull

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.