Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Aurobindo

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Tom Robbins

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

George Carlin

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

Jack Bruce

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

Rex Stout

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Robert Ringer

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

Sarah Shahi

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Warren Buffett

If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

Albert Speer

I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Lord Chesterfield

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

Steven T. Katz

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

Eva Green

All my jewelry has stories.