Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilhelm Leibniz

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

Judith Butler

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Ron Hirst

We'll see how it goes, how it feels. It's all contingent on my recovery.

Tessa Jowell

Wouldn't it be wonderful if William joined the contingent for Singapore speaking up for London?

Joel Staff

We have a number of new products rolling out. Some of them are contingent on what happens to natural gas prices.

Mike Greene

He's planning to be back for Saturday's game, but that's all contingent on how his mother is feeling.

Gene Brockman

Our contribution could be contingent on what they (the fire district) decide to do.

Barry Axelrod

I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.

Kym Hougham

We're talking to the tour now to find out our options. A lot depends on who has tour membership. But we know the foreign contingent will be a lot bigger.

Edmund Husserl

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

Leo Strauss

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Leo Strauss

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Mother Teresa

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

Teresa Calcutta

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Bill Dunn

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Tom Adams

No other 1942 film would touch those kinds of numbers.

Reggie Bush

I feel like I've been making those kinds of plays and those kinds of moves since I was 9 years old. It's God's gift. It's a blessing, and I'm just trying to make the most of that blessing.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Leona Peters

There are lots of things going on. People showcased the kinds of things they're doing in the communities. It was amazing.

Siv Meisingseth

One of the three stewardesses did not have the necessary qualifications to work on this plane.

Tim Jones

When this occurs we have to start investigating and if necessary start a search.

Bob Poole

If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon as possible.

Francis Lockier

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Jim Lewis

Yeah, that's awful. That's not necessary at all.

Lynn Woolsey

unless we take all steps necessary for nuclear disarmament.

Javier Solana

We have not been able to reach agreement. A precondition to constructive confidence, which is necessary now, is stopping all uranium enrichment activities.

Ron Dittemore

We're satisfied that the necessary precautions have taken place or we wouldn't launch.

Carl Elliott

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.

Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Mike Adras

Obviously, that would have energized our guys. It's a play that I know energizes Ruben, and it did just the opposite to him. That was a big momentum-changer in the first half.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Dean Ornish

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

Earl Nightingale

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Iris Apfel

I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.

Source Unknown

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

James Tobin

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Doug Willmore

That's all we were told, with no reasoning at all.

Christopher Hitchens

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Samantha Power

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Coolio

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

Donald Tusk

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Twyla Tharp

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Deng Xiaoping

Seek truth from facts.

Democritus

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Denis Diderot

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.