Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russel

One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics

Dennis Prager

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

Dean Ornish

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

Dimitar Sasselov

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

Edsger Dijkstra

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

Deepak Chopra

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

Wayne Hale

If we had a catastrophic failure with Discovery, we'd need to figure out how to prevent that same problem from occurring on Atlantis.

Voltaire

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new

Laura Freid

Silk Road embodies the spirit of discovery and exchange. We want to encourage people to look for what unites them instead of what divides them.

Rick Bishop

No one realized back then that it was a luxury to be able to spread it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Edsger Dijkstra

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Dean Stanley

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

Ludwig von Mises

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

Ludwig von Mises

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

Andy Buchsbaum

We don't have the luxury of waiting one more shipping season to regulate these (overseas) vessels.

Jeff Mikulina

We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.