Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Fleming

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

Alexander Cockburn

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

Albrecht Durer

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

Aldous Huxley

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Albert Pike

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Albert Einstein

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

Albert Einstein

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

Albert Einstein

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

Abigail Spencer

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Abigail Adams

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Aberjhani

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Aberjhani

As goes love so goes life.

Aaron Klug

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Neville

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

A. N. Wilson

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

Aaron Allston

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Aeschylus

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Aeschylus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Tom Brokaw

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Paul Reiser

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

Benjamin Franklin

Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!

George Hincapie

One of the reasons I work so hard today is because my father taught me to persevere. I don't think I would be where I am today without his positive influence,

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Mentally it's not tough because we love to play hockey. But fatigue kicks in by the second game.

One of our nemeses is rebounding. That sealed our fate.

Vandana Shiva

My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.

Karan Johar

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.