Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Blaise Pascal

The stream is always purer at its source.

Blaise Pascal

The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]

Anil Kapoor

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Anselm of Canterbury

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Doug Henning

Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

Calvin Trillin

The price of purity is purists.

Federico Fellini

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

Joshua Harris

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

David Daniels

The Great Chief also honours modesy.

Bobby Flay

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Democritus

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

Christopher Paolini

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Helen Suzman

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Frances E. Willard

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Jenny Eclair

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.