Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Mugabe

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Robert Mugabe

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

Robert Mugabe

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Robert Collier

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.

Rob Zombie

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Rob Bishop

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry.

Rob Brydon

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Richard Perle

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Richard Paul Evans

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Richard P. Feynman

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

Richard P. Feynman

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Richard P. Feynman

Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.

Richard P. Feynman

To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

Richard P. Feynman

There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Richard P. Feynman

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Richard P. Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Hooker

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Richard Hooker

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Richard Dawkins

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

Richard Whately

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richelle Mead

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Richelle Mead

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

Richelle Mead

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

Richelle Mead

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Richelle Mead

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

Richelle Mead

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

Richelle Mead

You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Rebecca West

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Rebecca West

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.