Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

William Matthews

There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

William Shenstone

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William J. Clinton

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

Rebecca De Mornay

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Richard Ford

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Rich Lowry

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Richard Rohr

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Richard P. Feynman

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Richard Dawkins

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

Richard Dawkins

In the beginning was simplicity.

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

River Phoenix

In simplicity there is truth.

Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

William Hogarth

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

Ryan Seacrest

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

William Cowper

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.