Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

David Agus

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

David Levy

We have not abandoned the SLA, ... Our gates are open.

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now, ... The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Gifford Miller

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

Ria Brown

She is an example of what we see everyday in southwest Florida, animals abandoned and neglected.

James Bond

Most people really don't want to give up abandoned cars. Really, we don't take them away from them.

Charles Thomas

Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Charlotte Bronte

He made me love him without looking at me.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Jane Wagner

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.