Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

James Patterson

This is my brain: O This is my brain after making out with Fang: * It's very sad.

James Madison

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Erik Brynjolfsson

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erich Segal

although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.

Eric Sevareid

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Emma Stone

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

John Lancaster Spalding

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

Jodie Foster

I've worked with Neil Jordan, who I really adore. We did The Brave One [2007] together.

Jim Shaw

One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end.

George Lucas

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

George MacDonald

To try to be brave is to be brave.

Ellen Hopkins

Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.

Lil Wayne

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

Lady Gaga

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

Lewis Black

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

Karl Pilkington

My brain's just full of passwords.

Karl Pilkington

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

Livy

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Luciano Pavarotti

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Malala Yousafzai

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

Malala Yousafzai

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Maira Kalman

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Omar Khayyam

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

Oliver Sacks

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony.

Oliver Sacks

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

O. Henry

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

Ellen G. White

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.