Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cobbett

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Joe Paterno

I thought we showed some greatness last night.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Bijou Phillips

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Bill Hicks

I don't get along with anything, I really don't...I'm, I'm, maybe I'm just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Jason Silva

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Kurt Kutay

Our market is national. All of us (in the industry) want to live here. We love the outdoors, and what greater place is there to live than the Pacific Northwest?

Richard Dodd

Some of the species, like the pipistrelles, are increasing, and the rarer species, which include the greater horseshoe bat, are actually stable, so we are trying to find ways to increase their populations.

Steve Phillips

Our BI system provides information that helps us seek out greater efficiency.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert Teeter

We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Kevin McCarthy

I think the sooner we get it done the better off we are, the greater trust the public will have,

Steven Anderson

Larry King has been in the paper for a very long time. But we want the news to be trendier, newsier and to have greater impact than it has now.

Wesley Moultrie

It is having a much greater impact, I think, then what had been anticipated.