Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Margaret Mitchell

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

Michael Lewis

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Michael Faraday

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

Max Planck

Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

Max Planck

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Tamsin Greig

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Ed Downey

That's a lot of people's lives you've touched or perhaps even saved.

Julie Johnson

Also, I have a parent volunteer who lives and breathes 'The Wizard of Oz,' and doing this show for the school's first play was partly her idea too.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The Talmud

There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Susanna Kaysen

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Mark Dantonio

I'm sure they do. We're working. We know where we're at.

Bill Self

I'm sure the winner will get one of those.

Chris Lyons

I'm sure the town will still be there but I don't think it'll be as vibrant.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.