Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Amos Oz

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Yahya Jammeh

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

Iggy Azalea

As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

Ian Mckellen

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Glenn Ford

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

George Allen

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

Donald Trump

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Horace

For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.

Bertrand Russel

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Bible Bible

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

Barry Ritholtz

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ...

William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

Rig Veda

For the successful accomplishment of any work one needs sharp intellect and the will to perform relentless Karma.

Cary Elwes

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Edward Gibbon

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Frederic Bastiat

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Gloria Steinem

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Joe Juraszek

I will have them do movements that are specific to their position. I'm not technical enough when it comes to football. That's for the position coaches.

Ron Shock

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap it up - like three-piece movements in a symphony.

Andy Serkis

People used to say, 'Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,' and now they say, 'Andy Serkis played Caesar.' That's a significant leap.

Gus O'Donnell

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

Greg Hall

I can't tell you what her movements were,

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Yao Ming

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

Don Howard

We have a long way to go and a very short time to get the work done.

Roger Miller

We haven't had as many workers over there. We have a shortage of workers,

Stephen Jones

We're not short on supply -- we're potentially short if something were to happen.

Frederick Burke

Ports could be a bottleneck in the short term.

Louisa May Alcott

Never use a long word when a short one will do

Thomas Ford

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

Grace Young

On short notice, we're not going to get a lot of people.

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.