Famous Quotes & Sayings

William McKinley

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

Will Durant

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

William Feather

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

William Feather

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Robert De Niro

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...

Robert De Niro

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

Robert De Niro

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

Charles Kettering

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Andrew Mellon

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Dwayne Johnson

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Dwayne Johnson

The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in, just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.

Colin Wilson

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

Colin Wilson

The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

James Russell Lowell

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

Friedrich Schiller

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Luc de Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Longchenpa

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

John Clare

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.