Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

I've got some words of wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

But this is a formality. I don?t like the words ?slam dunk,? but it?s pretty much a given.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Buddy Bell

He understands that he wasn't ready. Those were his words to me.

Jesse Jackson

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Generally, I don't think words are what matters. It's what's happening.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Gottfried Leibniz

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Immanuel Kant

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Immanuel Kant

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

I don't think there are any words I could come up with immediately for what that would mean.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Kenny Smith

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Dan Millman

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

We don't own the No. 12. The words '12th Man' is what it comes down to.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Pema Chodron

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Pythagoras

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.