Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sydenham

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

George Porter

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

George Porter

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

Nicholas Culpeper

If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar, or any Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is better, you may and no harm done.

Henry Bessemer

The ground for the factory having been chosen, and a long lease of the premises obtained, I had next to plan the necessary buildings.

Jonathan Brown

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Jonathan Brown

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Frederick Sanger

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Integrity of one's values is the highest score.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.

Giuseppe Pisanu

We are considering the highest possible risk of an attack, ... and we are preparing ourselves for the worse possible threat.

Amber Magner

It's not an impossible task. But we will have to play out our highest level to have even a chance.

Geir Lundestad

That is the second highest number of nominations ever. We can't have a record every year, but it does indicate strong interest.

John Small

The voting process was a joke. It was a play by Dr. Stafford to get the highest possible increase. There was essentially no debate.

Richard Walker

There's two reasons: One is geographical, when you're in the middle of the fastest-growing part of the country, near these big urban centers, the richest places always have the highest costs, partly because they're successful.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Richard Dawkins

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

James Shirley

The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Nicholas Boileau

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

George Herbert

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Jane Clayson

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

David Miliband

Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

Stephen Farnsworth

The truth is that it is profitable for private interests to give things to lawmakers. And if it weren't, they wouldn't give them. If it were not profitable for them to put some of their resources in the pockets of lawmakers, they wouldn't do it.

George Zoffinger

It is very important for interests to be disclosed. I support the new policy and I think it is a very positive thing.

Martha Stewart

This is what truly interests us, why we all come to work every day ... our passion is and always should be to make life better,

Doug Booher

It's a wide-open system because people have a lot of different interests ... we want to try to have something for everyone.

Dennis Woodward

Australia's trying to tread a tightrope between our various trading interests and our strategic alliances.

Andrew Wheat

The sky's the limit on what these interests will spend on this fight.

Dustie Robertson

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

William Penn

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Leigh Hunt

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

John Bolton

There may be an occasion that we want the U.N. to properly run a program like this.

Bible Bible

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Eric Elliott

This is Casey's first Zone meet, and if she can rise to the occasion there is nothing stopping her.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Najib Razak

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

Walter Reisch

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

James Hansen

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Luis Walter Alvarez

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Leo Szilard

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Jon Stewart

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

John Maeda

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Woody Allen

Subjectivity is objective.

Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

J. J. Johnson

I just find the whole subject so exciting, it really is my passion.

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.