Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Levertov

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Utopias are often just premature truths.

Adam Smith

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

H. G. Wells

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

Michael Novak

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Theodor Adorno

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Karen Joy Fowler

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Garry Wills

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

Elizabeth Warren

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Vidya Balan

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Shimon Edelman

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

Menachem Begin

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

David Sanborn

Usually there's some kind of clue, whether it's a rhythmic foundation or sometimes its very abstract - just an emotional kind of landscape - and then you just kind of start someplace.

Octavio Paz

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Braylon Edwards

Michigan taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about maturity, accountability, dependability. And there were so many things to meet, having that number, things I would have earned. If I had went to Michigan and just worn 80 and had a good career, I wouldn't have fulfilled what I wanted.

Mike Wallace

I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

David Kyambadde

Our promise will be fulfilled in a fortnight.

Marianne Williamson

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Julia Cameron

There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the case. We need to make our own passions a priority.

Gerhard Schroeder

Turkey has fulfilled all its promises. Now it is time we honor ours,

Francis Escudero

We've won. We've fulfilled our pledge, 'Never Again!

Matt Bomer

I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

Donna Kelly

They've been so nurtured, they've been so relaxed, ... They've been so spiritually fulfilled that they just stop in their tracks.