Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Ludwig von Mises

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

We get a lot of e-mails, a lot of ideas, and this one really jumped out as being something special.

We have a lot of opportunities and ideas on how we can reduce that very considerably,

Usually, the way these things work is that you have some ideas when you launch.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

Baz Luhrmann

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

You can also submit ideas for the list online.

Bertrand Russell

If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

John Browning

we had run out of ideas at Los Alamos.

Joanne Harris

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

John C. Wright

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

John C. Reilly

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

John Cage

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

John Cage

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John C. Maxwell

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

John C. Maxwell

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

John C. Maxwell

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

John C. Maxwell

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

John C. Maxwell

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

James Thurber

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Stewart

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

James Surowiecki

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

James Polshek

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

James Patterson

I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah.

James Patterson

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.

James Mercer

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

James Mark Baldwin

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

James Longstreet

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

James MacArthur

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

James Lovelock

Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.