Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathanael Greene

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Mitt Romney

Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

R. D. Laing

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

R. D. Laing

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Oprah Winfrey

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Margaret Atwood

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Kenny Loggins

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Margaret Thatcher

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Mark Twain

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Mark Twain

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Leonardo da Vinci

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Paul Reiser

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

Paul Gleason

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Leon Jouhaux

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

Leon Trotsky

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Learned Hand

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Learned Hand

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Pablo Picasso

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Paul McGann

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

Ismail Haniyeh

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Idries Shah

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Harry S Truman

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.