Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

Dolly Parton

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Desmond Tutu

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Ann Marie Buerkle

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

Bryant H. McGill

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

Brian Lumley

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Tina Turner

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Ricky Williams

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Randy Johnson

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

Ralph Bakshi

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

Seamus Heaney

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Socrates

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

Meredith Brooks

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Matt Braeuer

As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it.

Brad Thor

After 9/11, if people made movies about terrorism, the U.S. was evil and Muslims were misunderstood: 'Lions for Lambs,' 'Stop-Loss,' 'Rendition.' Well, all these movies didn't do particularly well. In Hollywood, people scratched their heads, but the reason they didn't do well is because in Middle America, people want to see their values triumph.

James Altucher

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.

Bruce Buchanan

That used to be his sanctuary, out in the middle of rural Texas where he could get his mind off his troubles. And now his troubles are right down the street.

Jessie Davis

That's my truck on the road. I see it. It's in the middle of the road.

Sami Abdulbari

You pull a lot more as a guard. You're always in the middle of the action.

Richard Johns

There are more valid arguments for fifth-grade being in the middle school than not.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.