Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

Steve Campbell

We have no problem with immigration as long as it's legal. So we thought we'd exercise our right, as Americans, to protest.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

Charles Dickens

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

Ayn Rand

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

Alexander Smith

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Ozzy Osbourne

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

Ernest Hemingway

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

Sherman Alexie

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Ernest Bramah

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Rachel Zoe

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

Steven Tyler

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

Audre Lorde

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

George H. W. Bush

Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

Patrick Ness

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Nelson Mandela

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Ernest Holmes

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

Jack Canfield

What is the why behind everything you do?

Martin McDonagh

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Stevie Smith

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.