Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Debby Ryan

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

David Starr Jordan

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

Confucius

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Confucius

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Andrew Lang

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Alberto Manguel

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

Alfred Kazin

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Aldous Huxley

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Aldous Huxley

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Patrick McDonald

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society and we were very successful.

Elaine Stritch

This is for people who have dough. It's expensive. That's the way it is.

Shannon Sickels

This is for all the people who went before us and all the people who would like to come after us.

Rich Carnevale

This is going to be something Princeton people have never seen before.

Richard Power

This is a problem that not enough people really are clued into.

Thomas Miller

This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions. You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains.

Robert Cendro

This is an unbelievable surface. People who haven't seen it or weren't sure what it was are going to say, ?Wow!' It's just incredible.

Mark Viator

This is a team sport. We need as many people there as possible.

Madeline Albright

This is a special time because of a lot of people traveling, so we thought that it was important. There are threats, and so that's why we think that is responsible.