Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Richard Branson

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Robert A. Heinlein

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Sunita Narain

The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory

Story Musgrave

I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

Steve Irwin

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Henry Ford

Whatever you resist will persist.

David Weinberger

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.