Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

Kate Winslet

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Rob Bell

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Richard Dawkins

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Robin Wright

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

Robert Nozick

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Robert Rauschenberg

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Neal Stephenson

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Jacob Lew

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Caroline Wozniacki

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

Suzanne Collins

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

David Taras

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving,

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Andrew Young

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.