Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Edward Jenner

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Edith Wharton

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

Kathy Collins

It would have totally irritated me. We would have said we're out of the deal.

Victoria Beckham

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

James Bryant Conant

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Denny Green

I was irritated with the outcome. We have to learn to play better, period.

Denny Green

I was irritated with the outcome today. We're very disappointed.

Denny Green

I was irritated with the outcome today. They were more powerful than we were.

Eric Betzig

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

Richard Clarke

I really thought that letter was poorly stated and it irritated me.

David Benoit

I'm relieved, but I'm irritated it took so much effort.

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Christopher Walken

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Anthony Anderson

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Simone Weil

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?