Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Gaghan

See No Evil. We had support in the intelligence sectors.

Donald Knuth

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

Carl Gustav Jung

Psychology does not know what good and evil are in themselves; it knows them only as judgments about relationships.

Bible Bible

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? / So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Scott Turow

You're not a prosecutor unless you've got your own issues with evil.

Brandon Sanderson

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Barbara Lee

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Ayn Rand

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Benito Mussolini

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Edward Norton

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Edward Abbey

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Donald Knuth

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Colin Powell

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Adolf Hitler

The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.

Andrew Weil

Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

Anne Sexton

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

D. H. Lawrence

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.