Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Calvin Klein

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

Gerry Harvey

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

Fritz Haber

Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.

Frei Otto

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

Gary Johnson

I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Ovid

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

I want to give producers more financial security.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

Alber Elbaz

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

Albert Bandura

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Albert Camus

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Albert Camus

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

Albert Camus

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

Annie Leibovitz

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Annie Besant

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

Clay Shirky

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

Clayton Christensen

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected. None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent. So we must continue to have society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imaginings.

D. A. Carson

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

D. H. Lawrence

From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

Conrad Black

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Daniel Ek

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

Daniel Dennett

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

David Foster Wallace

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unless we progress, we regress.

Doug Stanhope

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Doris Lessing

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.