Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lynch

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Ronald Knox

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Ray Charles

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Alex Smith

It feels great to get my first (touchdown pass), no matter where it was, but it was great to get it here. Obviously, a lot of credit goes to the other guys, the receivers and especially the guys up front. Things are going to come together. All we need to do is keep working hard. Being young, I'm continuing to learn and make strides every week.

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

Brian O'Neill

The solutions to the problem are relatively simple. We can design seats and head restraints that are not expensive, that can eliminate a lot of these injuries.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Philip Treacy

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

Monique Lhuillier

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

Michael Hansmeyer

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

Michael Graves

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Jim Ryan

I got into design in my freshman year but I'm also interested in architecture.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

Thomas Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Robert McNamara

One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

Robert H. Schuller

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

Robert H. Schuller

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

Robert H. Schuller

Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

Robert H. Schuller

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

Robert Anton Wilson

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.

Robert Anton Wilson

Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

Robert Anton Wilson

Belief is the death of intelligence.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Michael Kroll

You just hope the other players can hold the ship. Our subs played real well.

Annette McEvoy

While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year.

Lincoln Bormann

We can only hold off on this for so long.

William Shakespeare

I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

Dito Montiel

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

Peter McTeague

In the end, the Fed's on hold until there's inflation and significant job creation,

Joe Powers

I just wanted to hold on and hope nothing went wrong.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty of danger. And it might make us lose some sleep from time to time. But enjoy it. Life goes on.

Thomas H. Cook

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Marc LaVorgna

Basically, the plane is stuck in the mud.

Mary Fetchet

I'm not planning to attend. It will just be too emotionally draining.

Bob Muller

I want everyone to know that we are going to talk about just one plan that we have been considering.

Deborah Kerr

They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to plan early.

Denny Green

It's not working. You have a lot of strategies, you plan strategies and you want them to work. Now we're sitting 0-3 and played very poorly in the second half.

Hootie Johnson

We plan to start our playoff, if we have one, on 18. And then play 10 and 18, and stay in that rotation. And it will still be sudden death.

Bryan Pata

We plan to put a lot of pressure on him. I'm sure we'll find a way to rattle him.

Burning Spear

We plan to do other things for this place which we know everyone will appreciate.

Sinead O'Connor

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

John Owen

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

Norman Cousins

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

Mark Shields

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Pharrell Williams

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Nick Vujicic

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Nat King Cole

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Michel de Montaigne

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Gary Sheffield

So I think he did it on purpose,

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Thomas Sowell

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Simone Weil

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

Thomas Carlyle

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Steven Spielberg

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Tom Stoppard

There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.