Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Overbury

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Susan Griffin

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

Marilynne Robinson

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

Philip Sidney

If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish.

Francis Drake

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Christian Nestell Bovee

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Grenville Kleiser

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Immanuel Kant

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Tom Ford

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition

Shakti Gawain

Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.

Mason Cooley

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

Isabelle Adjani

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Alan Cohen

Less rules, more intuition.

Mario Vazquez

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

Johan Lindeberg

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

Deepak Chopra

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Judy Pardonnet

They went through a number of elements and a number of different scents, and their performance was very sub-par and unacceptable.

Joe Mantello

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Margaret Atwood

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

Pope Benedict XVI

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.