Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in exercising (training) their own powers. One doesn't need to grasp such a one by the hand and lead him to the goal, but only from time to time give him suggestions, in order that he may reach it himself in the shortest way.

Steve Campbell

We have no problem with immigration as long as it's legal. So we thought we'd exercise our right, as Americans, to protest.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning... The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

Charles Dickens

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Charles Churchill

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

Leigh Hunt

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

George Herbert

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Emily Dickinson

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Thomas Hood

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Walter Scott

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.

Jeff Judkins

We have to go in and play with a lot of confidence. We know if we win we are in first place no matter what.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Tim Sheens

We've sort of got used to him being in the squad no matter what.

Marc Newson

The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

Richard G. Scott

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Bret Easton Ellis

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he said.