Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Grant Morrison

I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.

Fred Melamed

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Fred Rogers

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

Frank Herbert

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Greg Norman

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

Linus Torvalds

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Lincoln Steffens

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

Leo Szilard

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Leo Tolstoy

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Jostein Gaarder

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

Sean William Scott

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

Courtney B. Vance

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith.

David Bellamy

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

David Ortiz

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Kurt Busch

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Jon Stewart

Clearly, I'm way older than everyone.

Kate Atkinson

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Josh Hartnett

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.