Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

Discipline must be maintained.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Alan Arkin

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

Alan Alda

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive...until we can almost feel the breath of God.

Chogyam Trungpa

The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Chinua Achebe

Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.

David Talbot

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Byron Katie

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.

Byron Katie

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Buffalo Bill

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Bryan Stevenson

We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Catherine Helen Spence

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

Carolina Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Carlton Cuse

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

C. L. R. James

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.

We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility.

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Jeff Davis

We are a grass-roots volunteer organization that has at all times complied with Minnesota registration and disclosure requirements.

We are going to shape the industry discussion on this.

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Anne Beatts

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Laurel Lea

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

Viktor Khristenko

When you start to think about energy security, you must discuss global energy security, because there is no other type.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only a disciple can make a disciple.