Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

They know and we know that the systems that are being discussed are not in any way relevant to the Russians' nuclear force,

Donna Williams

They have fun and they learn about discipline. But they're also going to learn about teamwork and responsibility.

They handed down discipline through the school. It wasn't a major issue. It was more of an administrative issue. I'm glad we don't work that way.

They do not need to make a trip to let us know of their interest, or educate us about their organization. With some other teams, it was important to have a personal meeting in order to have a full discussion of all relevant variables.

They discovered that inventory levels had dropped precipitously for the second month in a row. That meant we were working out of this excess inventory and they liked that enough.

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?

You can't just get people to suddenly discover integrity overnight.

This plan is welcome. But fundamental problems relating to the discipline, training and accountability of the integrated brigades need also to be addressed as a matter of priority.

This meeting will not be a next round of six-party talks but it will be a good opportunity for the delegates to exchange views to discuss how to overcome difficulties and ensure an early resumption of six-party talks.

Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Hans Hofmann

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Gordon Gee

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline.

Gladys Taber

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Giuseppe Mazzini

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Georges St-Pierre

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

Horace

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Herbert Spencer

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Herman Melville

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

Henry David Thoreau

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Henry David Thoreau

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Jamaica Kincaid

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Jack Williamson

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Isaac Asimov

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Isaac Asimov

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Isaac Asimov

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Horace Walpole

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Herbert Read

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

Herbert Hoover

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.