Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Albert Einstein

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Alexander Hamilton

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

Adolf Hitler

The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

Adam McKay

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Nancy Buirski

Instead of the classic, heroic story that we all so much want to see, we see a story about a man who unfortunately can't get together to do what he wants to do.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.

Peter Costello

part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.

Alfred Jarry

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.

Jim Neal

Suffice it to say, there was quite a physical struggle in this and this individual was injured severely.

Kathy Smith

Some of those issues are things that are going on at the individual sites. People are pulled in every way and sometimes things just get overlooked.

John Cornyn

on the side of justice and individual liberties.

Bede Griffiths

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

B. F. Skinner

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

C. S. Lewis

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

C. S. Lewis

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.