Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Brian Tracy

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Boethius

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Alison McGhee

All it takes is a single moment.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Anne Robinson

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Edith Wharton

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

David Hockney

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Charles James

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.