Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

William Shakespeare

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

Deborah Norville

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

Edmund Waller

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

Charles Dickens

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Arthur Eddington

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

William Shakespeare

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

African-American Proverb

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

Brian Eno

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

Eliza Haywood

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Abdu'l Baha

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

Jane Austen

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Edmund Burke

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

Anthony Kennedy

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Kate Morton

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Philip James Bailey

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.