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 Austen

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

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.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Thomas Sowell

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Tony Romo

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

Stephen Hawking

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.

George Santayana

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

George Herbert

He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.

Franz Kafka

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

Jack Nicholson

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

Francois Rabelais

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Greta Gerwig

I don't do well when I don't work.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Kenneth Relihan

It is kind of a flexible kind of situation.

David Cole

They have moved from a rigid culture, to a much more lean and flexible company.