Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Frame

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

Lisa Randall

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

What we're going to see, hopefully, in the next eight or nine months is a lot of ideas. There's going to be a lot of discussion about Alberta, and I personally relish that thought.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Viktor Yushchenko

We shall meet, discuss ... and shall work to find a way out of these social conflicts,

Thomas Bangalter

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.

Thomas Bangalter

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Tommy Wiseau

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Sharon Stone

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

We're just trying to manage the discomfort that he's having.

Bob Etheridge

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Boethius

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Arthur Symons

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Bruce Lee

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Bruce Lee

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Bruce Lee

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Bill Keller

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

Bill Keller

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Edward Jenner

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Edward James Olmos

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

Edward James Olmos

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Edward Gibbon

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

Edith Wharton

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hilbert

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

David Dixon

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.