Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Steven Pressfield

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

Michael Behe

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

Philip Guston

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Jill Abramson

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

Erin McKean

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Georges Braque

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Jason Silva

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Gary Hamel

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Alain Robert

I don't want to follow the herd.

Akhenaton

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akira Kurosawa

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

Akio Morita

Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Bill Nye

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

Don Crawford

It is shocking, mysterious and devastating and I don't understand it!

Gail Godwin

...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Diana Vreeland

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Bill Hybels

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

Albert Einstein

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

E. M. Forster

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

Sam Keen

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.