Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...

E. O. Wilson

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

Thomas Jefferson

Never use two words when one will do.

Saadi

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

Richard Cecil

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

Vince Cable

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

Victoria Principal

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

Victoria Moran

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

Victoria Moran

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Walter Raleigh

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Willie Nelson

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

William Peter Blatty

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

William Petty

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

Pope Francis

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Daniel Dennett

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

David Perlmutter

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Hawkins

Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.

Dan Brown

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

Andrew Lansley

No decision about me without me.

Andrea Arnold

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

Ambrose Bierce

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Anthony Hopkins

I never make conscious decisions.