Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

Wietse Venema

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

Warren G. Harding

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.

Ronald Reagan

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

Ronald Reagan

Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.

Ronald Reagan

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

Ronald Reagan

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Ronald Reagan

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Sai Baba

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Saint Basil

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

Saint Francis de Sales

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

Saint Augustine

Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

Saint Augustine

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Saint Augustine

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Tori Amos

There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Tori Amos

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Vera Brittain

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Vera Wang

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

Vanessa Hudgens

Just recently Ive learned to be okay with myself without wearing makeup. I think it was a special someone telling me that I didnt need it. I started taking care of my skin and realized I didnt need as much as I thought I did.

Vanessa Hudgens

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

Valerie June

I dont marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

Ugo Betti

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Uma Thurman

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Ulysses S. Grant

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

Ulysses S. Grant

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Umberto Eco

I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.

Richard Dawkins

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

Richard Dawkins

Human beings are just gene machines.

Robin Wright

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Robin Tunney

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

Robin Williams

It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.