Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.

C. S. Lewis

There is someone I accept even though I do not approve of all he does...and that someone is me

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

C. S. Lewis

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

Carl Sagan

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

Carl Sagan

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience...

Arsene Wenger

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Antoine Lavoisier

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Matthew Arnold

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.