Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Margaret Sanger

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Carl Sagan

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

Carl Sagan

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience...

Arsene Wenger

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Antoine Lavoisier

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.

Bertrand Russell

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Baz Luhrmann

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

David Brady

It has revenues and profits and a very strong pipeline,

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

D. H. Lawrence

If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.

Dhirubhai Ambani

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

Alan Ladd

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Frederic Bastiat

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Michael Kilpatrick

We're making a profit every year, but the thing is, we keep putting that profit back into the business.

Jim Cavanaugh

The profits there are going to be huge.