Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Hicks

If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'

Mike Eaves

He's like a surrogate grandfather. He represents a reference you can always go back to.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.

Tom Matzzie

I'm only 30. I don't really understand the reference that much.

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Dean Acheson

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.