Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Clay Shirky

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clayton Christensen

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

Rumi

I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless?

Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes, kismet happens.

Leonard Woolf

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Gail Carriger

Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman. “Who else would be standing in the middle of a street on full-moon night with a raging ruddy fire behind her, waving a parasol about?” “Good point, good point.

Maggie Stiefvater

Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

Haruki Murakami

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.

Haruki Murakami

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

Joe Walsh

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

James Patterson

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Sandra Ford

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

Anna Jameson

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

Anna Jameson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.