Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

The likelihood of it seems to be so low that it does not surprise me that it's never been discussed in my presence,

The Lord is your Staff and Support. Do not discard it; do not be led away from the path of faith by stories invented by malice and circulated by spite.

The leagues, especially the NFL, don't want to discount their product for a particular market,

Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Mahatma Gandhi

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

James Truslow Adams

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Luke Evans

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Lord Kelvin

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

Lord Kelvin

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Malcolm Bradbury

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Freya Stark

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

Hermann Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Henri Poincare

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Henri Poincare

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Henri Poincare

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Henrik Ibsen

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Henri Nouwen

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

Henri Nouwen

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

Henri Nouwen

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Henry R. Luce

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Henry Paulson

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

Heraclitus

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Helen Dunmore

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

Julie Burchill

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Katherine Heigl

I don't have a lot of discipline.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

Josh Lucas

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Joseph Conrad

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Joseph Glanvill

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

Kate Millett

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.