Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter De Vries

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Peggy Noonan

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Marlo Thomas

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Max Planck

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

Max Planck

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

May Sarton

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Maya Angelou

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

John Milton

As an engineer, I feel it's at a point we should be concerned, ... We're taking risks already. I don't like relying on nature not to do something.

People do not know My true transcendental nature. Therefore, they fall.

William Cowper

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.

No rollout of this nature is ever going to be perfect. We're going to have issues; we're going to have problems; it's a complicated program to train people on. But we really are trying to get it right." ()

Samuel Rutherford

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.

Manolo Blahnik

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

There's always going to be some type of scandal. It's just the nature of people. When you have so much at stake, people are going to use anything in their power to try to win. That's what this is all about.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

They had to get everything from nature. You could only use what was in your own backyard.

This is about a threat of the nature that massacred thousands of people in New York,

Saint Patrick

I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea, Stability of earth, Firmness of rock.

Ronald Fisher

No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.

Ronald Reagan

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Ruth Pitter

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

Ruth Pitter

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

Roy H. Williams

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Susan Griffin

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

Stewart Udall

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Steve Irwin

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Mother Teresa

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Pearl S. Buck

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Pearl S. Buck

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Peace Pilgrim

If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!