Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

William Kirby

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ismail Kadare

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Chris Crutcher

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dave Brubeck

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Natalie Massenet

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

Felicity Kendal

I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Dennis C. Blair

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Darrin Zeer

Travel involves a lot of waiting. I thought, 'Wow, what a perfect time to do a pose or take a breath. Yoga is so portable.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Bruce Hall

The canal's trust has been campaigning for this for over 30 years now and this is not just water in the trough, this involves the whole community.

Anthony Fauci

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

Robert Frank

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

Pierre Schaeffer

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Madeline Albright

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Bobbi Brown

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Nothing Can Make You Suffer, Without Your Silent Permission

Robert Baxter

They just told me we had no permission to go from his commanders,

Joy Page

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Patricia Schroeder

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.