Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Greene

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Honor Harger

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933.

Frederick Buechner

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

George Eliot

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Francis Bacon

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Francis Bacon

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

Brian Cashman

If he has interest in us, we'll discuss it.

Martin Charnin

If God had have wanted discussion Then God would have said 'Let's discuss it'

I can't teach them that game experience in the time I have them for the two years. What you can teach them is discipline. You can teach them how to play. And they leave here better players than the were when they came.

I don't see the demand. We've been discussing that at our landlord meetings.

I am very much in line with my work. Surely, there are things I would want to realize, but for now I mainly have to discuss that with myself.

Junichiro Koizumi

I am not disappointed in the president's position. (He) is enthusiastic about environmental issues, and there is still time to discuss this issue.

I am not interested in having a discussion with them about freezing this operation.

an explicit discussion of what coastal Louisiana should look like.

And when they visit the mall, they may discover downtown.

Jerome Charyn

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Emil has put himself in a situation, offensively, to be an everyday player. But where he is defensively is still in the discussion stages.

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue

Esteban is not happy, nobody is happy with the results. We'll discuss it.

First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.

Folks ... are not happy that there's a disconnect between where the leadership wants to go and where the general public is on education issues.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

Curtis Granderson

Every year we discuss Jackie Robinson Day, which is April 15. We talk about it throughout baseball, promote it throughout baseball.

Dick Cheney

Brit, I'm simply not at liberty to discuss the issue,

Even though the regular rate was slightly higher than expectations, right now the market is willing to discount the fact that energy prices are an important component. The reality is, it's an important sign and inflation is picking up. The fact is, people have to start taking a look at energy prices as a concern.

Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Everything you see was discovered by our divers. A lot of the items displayed are not identified because they've petrified.

Every seller has an affirmative duty to disclose material defects.

Every lawyer Susan and I ever discussed this with said 'Rosenblatt, you're out of your mind,' ... This was like taking on a country, taking on the tobacco industry.

As the military goes for fewer bases, there is an increasing disconnect between the military and the community.