Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Bret Easton Ellis

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Rebecca Skloot

Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.

Kiana Tom

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

David Catalfamo

Doctors have indicated that the surgery was performed as expected without incident.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Christopher Moore

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Thomas Sowell

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.

Suzanne Somers

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Jason Conley

The thing I love most the coaching staff didn't give up on me. That's actually the reason I've broken out.

Rudi Giuliani

St. Paul's Chapel stands -- without so much as a broken window, ... little miracle.

George Soros

Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.

John Gilmore

Something is fundamentally broken at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.

Kevin Kading

Some say, the first chance I get it's coming out. Others say it never should have been broken in the first place and that one of the main reasons they signed up for CRP is that they like wildlife.

Bible Bible

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.