Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Steel

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

John Wesley

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Thales

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

Jack Kerouac

Something good will come of all things yet

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

Philip Pullman

All things from the north are devilish.

Haruki Murakami

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Colin Channer

All things in the fulness of time