Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Walker Percy

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Vincent Bugliosi

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

Robertson Davies

Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Wilhelm Reich

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

James Cox

I think it's a good idea. The Bangor School System is the gold standard as far as education goes, at least in this part of the state.

Fred Wilson

He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.

Ernest Hollings

There is no education in the second kick of a mule

Aaron Blake

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Jacque Fresco

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

Jerry Costello

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Dave White

This is a unique program that rewards farmers and ranchers who are model conservationists and provides incentives for other producers to meet those same high standards of environmental performance.

Faisal Basri

It's too ridiculous from an environmental point of view, but also from a technical point of view too.

Mike Patton

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Gina Barreca

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

Simon Callow

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.