Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Harte

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Eckhart Tolle

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Ben Nelson

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Eliphas Levi

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

William Shakespeare

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

Granth Sahib

Without God's Name, there is no other wealth. Everything else is just poison and ashes.

Pat Buchanan

Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day,

Eric Betzig

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

Angelina Jolie

It can poison you if you have success and you're not a successful person

A. E. Housman

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

D. H. Lawrence

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Raymond Martin

I don't think nuclear war will get us, but germs will.

Claude Bernard

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Louis Pasteur

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

Kelly Rowland

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

Sophie Swetchine

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.