Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

C. S. Lewis

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

C. S. Lewis

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

Agnes de Mille

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

Agnes de Mille

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes Repplier

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Charles de Gaulle

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Charles de Gaulle

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Byron Katie

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

Catherine Ashton

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Jane Wagner

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.