Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

C. S. Lewis

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Charles Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Conor McGregor

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

Brian Eno

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle.With a label on it.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Amy Carmichael

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Alphonse Karr

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

Andy Weir

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Brian Aldiss

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Aristophanes

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

Dave Ramsey

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Simone Weil

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.

Herbert Hoover

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Jane Mayer

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

Imelda Marcos

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.