Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

John Challenger

I think that the social compact hammered out in the mid-20th century has been superseded by a new compact that is different and doesn't promise the potential for lifetime tenure. Workers are free agents.

Erich Fromm

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead

John Van Hamersveld

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

Dr. Graham

In its century plus years of existence, it's had only two owners: the Flagler System and Flagler College.

Paul Spiegelman

The Century Club has done a lot of good work to raise money for charity. But on this one they've gotten their heads in the air.

Jose Barroso

The energy challenges of the 21st century require a common EU response. The EU is an essential element in delivering sustainable, competitive and secure energy for European citizens.

Robert Thompson

The idea of taking this very modern 21st century story of tender love between two cowboys and putting it into the time period of an old Western opens up the floodgates for telling jokes. Comedians can't resist because we all know what a cowboy movie is and this challenges it.

John Shelby Spong

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

John Stevens

I would totally disagree with that comment. I don't think we're ever considered as a soft hockey team. We've had this conversation before, our guys that are expected to score, need to score.

Richard Chamberlain

Handsome" means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Susanna Moore

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

Mark Leno

The only thing that could come to mind is that he's politically pandering to the far right, which has been demanding that he make a statement, ... I'd like to take her at her word that he only considers the policy implications, which means there's no need to make such a hurried decision.

Jon Fleischman

Here's a state that Democrats have long considered an easy win. Not this time.

Paul DePodesta

He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.

Mike Scioscia

He's been playing great. I think he's got to be a candidate. With the type of year he's having, you'd have to consider him.

Lanny Wadkins

I think it's going to be the same thing that you always have: Players are going to look at places where they play well. I think it's going to be the same criteria. I don't think the players are going to consider the Players Championship a major.

Claude Julien

I think when you consider the position that we were in with our roster and all the situations that have happened in the past couple of days, I thought we played a pretty tight game.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Madeline Albright

He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe,

Lynda Carter

I don't know that the people that are doing Wonder Woman are too interested in my point of view,

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Herschelle Gibbs

It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.

Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability.

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Shania Twain

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

William S. Burroughs

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Woody Allen

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Rick Warren

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Kathryn Lasky

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Peter York

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Paulo Coelho

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Sean O'Casey

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.