Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

John Green

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Gabrielle Zevin

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

Eckhart Tolle

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Andrea Tantaros

All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.

Laura Miller

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Samuel Smiles

Manners are the ornament of action.

Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

William Shakespeare

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Aristotle

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Rem Koolhaas

Sustainability has become an ornament.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Evelyn Waugh

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.