Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.

William J. Clinton

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

William J. Clinton

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

William James

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

William James

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Virginia Woolf

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

William Bernbach

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

William Faulkner

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Robert Crandall

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Sarah Palin

Don't retreat. Instead - reload!

Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Saoirse Ronan

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Richard Rorty

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Robert Smith

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

Robert Pozen

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.