Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Warren De la Rue

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Warren De la Rue

For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

William Herschel

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

Mary Leakey

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Mary Leakey

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Mary Leakey

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Paul Nurse

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

John Dalton

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

Miloon Kothari

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

Massoud Barzani

We have the names of the officials who gave the orders and those who executed them. Everything is contained in these documents,

Rick Rainey

Most of it was contained in our containment system, but some entered into the channel.

Peter Davis

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

Dick Bennett

We have not contained point guards at all.

Frank Robinson

We haven't completely shut him down, ... But we contained him.

Tim Thompson

When it is just Brant Quick back in the backfield, I think we could have contained him, ... but trying to contain everything they have... they have a lot of weapons.

Nick Greenwell

We finally stepped it up in overtime and contained them pretty well.

Alan Greenspan

Thus our baseline outlook for the U.S. economy is one of sustained economic growth and contained inflation pressures. In our view, realizing this outcome will require the Federal Reserve to continue to remove monetary accommodation.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

E. F. Schumacher

Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Carl Sagan

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

Alan Watts

The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Cheryl Richardson

Schedule a sacred date with yourself. You deserve time for your life.

Cheryl Strayed

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

Gloria Estefan

I strongly feel that we are all connected,

John Gandy

I feel very strongly that we are in the driver's seat.

Jim Doyle

I feel very strongly that that's not where we should be going with this,

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Brad Cashman

I don't feel as strongly as I did before on that. Basically, I shouldn't have made that comment.

Lloyd Church

I feel strongly he'll be able to play somewhere.

Endriartono Sutarto

We strongly suggest that he does not do that,

Michael Buckley

We're a strongly capitalised bank, after this loss, by international standards,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.