Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Jacob Bronowski

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

Johannes Stark

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

James Randi

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

Lamar S. Smith

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Melanie Sloan

Particularly in the House, the progress is very slow and may end up with very little reform.

James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Olympia Snowe

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Octavio Paz

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.