Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Alex Jones

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.

Craig Stevenson

I think we?re pretty close. It looks very good.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Daniel Nepstad

There is a notion that the presence of people can be harmful to the environment. But this is not always true.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Viola Spolin

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.