Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

C. S. Lewis

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

C. S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carl Sagan

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Angela Carter

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Georges Clemenceau

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

Frances Farmer

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

George Eliot

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Henry Ford

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Scott Westerfeld

Emperors are vain and useless things.

Mark Hamilton

The overall quality of women's golf is getting better, ... It's a natural evolution that these players are better.

Steve Willis

You keep showing up, you see the process, the evolution.

David Franks

We don't get pushed around by anybody. (The one-dimensional fighter) is a player who's losing his niche in hockey because of the evolution of the game.

Howard Moore

He's just seizing the opportunity. It's the evolution of him as a player. He's starting to find out more and more what his niche is.

Dwight Davis

It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.

Bill Jones

We've gone through an evolution of technologies. The capabilities our technology can provide are now what the industry is demanding.

Michael Ruse

I do not see evolution as something that is anti-religion.

Denis Simonneau

France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position.

David Deutsch

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.