Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Newman

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

Deena Burnett

He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early college, he kind of got away from the church, and ended up going to St. John's University in Minnesota. Tom was very intellectual, enjoyed the discourse with monks, had a lot of questions, and I think the monks provided a great insight into the faith he had grown up with and somehow had been missing.

Winston Smith

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

William Shakespeare

These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.

Jimmy Wales

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Bob Etheridge

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

Steven Chercover

I think Willamette hates Weyerhaeuser. But that doesn't fit into their fiduciary duty to shareholders. There is nothing stopping Willamette from soliciting another bid.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

John King

We feel it?s our duty to do it because it?s God?s work.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Ken Bacon

It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.

John Selden

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty

Mark Twain

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Pope Francis

We all have the duty to do good.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Jeff Kinney

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Christopher Birchby

I wouldn't play the hand any differently. I made my move and 80 percent of the time, you win with that hand. I took my shot and it didn't work out.

Andy Holt

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.

Gary Shaw

I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory).

Lee Evans

Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

Maggie Carey

In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Rudyard Kipling

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

John Cheever

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Paul Di Filippo

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Donald Harrison

I suspect what it is is pure stress.

Doug Green

We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.

Jeff Corbett

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

Sir Robson

I know nothing about it, it's just pure speculation.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William J. Clinton

Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robin Hobb

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Mayor Goulbourne

It should all be wrapped up by week's end.

Keith Kameg

This could have been wrapped up that night.

Jim Gaffigan

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

Ken Hitchcock

We can't get all wrapped up in what's going on,

David Levithan

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.