Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

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.

Graeme Smith

We know he's important to their attack. We've discussed a few things about him and we haven't just coped with him, we've dominated him at key stages.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

David Agus

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

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.

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.

Bill Keller

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.