Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Luc de Clapiers

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Louis Pasteur

My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Louis Pasteur

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

John Ciardi

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Luis Miguel

I'm dangerously generous.

You?d be surprised what kind of marketplace there is for gently used equipment.

Orson Scott Card

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

We don't yet know if genetics plays a factor.

Philippa Gregory

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio.

Michelle Moran

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

Stacy Schiff

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Simon Schama

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, ... Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

The ultimate beneficiary of the pig genome project is really not the pork producer, it's the consumer.

These guys are a lot more accessible, a lot more enjoyable. The players genuinely like each other, and that shows.

These genes are for risk, not for destiny,

Bob Hartley

It's a matter of playing our game. Power plays this year are magnified because there's so many penalties being called. In all the games, you're going to get some power plays if you skate. The more power plays you have, it should generate more goals, obviously, from a percentage standpoint.

It's a manufacturer that has international ownership structure, and this project would generate just over 500 jobs, but they're still looking at a number of places in Texas and in surrounding states. It's a laundry list for that and the others at this point.

It'll be a gentle pull with my hand,

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Robert Winston

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

This is not the Prussian general staff. They don't think about operations the way we think about operations.

The weekly updates were a little tedious and not terribly relevant. They generally don't measure trends very well.

The Web is a great opportunity in terms of revenue generation and for our correspondents to produce a lot of programming.

Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

Thomas Jefferson

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

Tania Raymonde

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

Tamora Pierce

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Tacitus

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.