Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Anne Lamott

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

Anne Lamott

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

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.

We'll stay here as long as we feel we're making progress, ... If we're not making progress, we're not going to stay.

What it proves is it's not completely genetic. They have the same genes.

What we see in American culture, whenever you have problems like this, you turn to your publicity person.

Bill Richardson

What we're trying to do is protect the consumer,

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Alex Van Halen

Van Halen is a work in progress.

Alex Winter

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

Alex Gibney

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

Albert Schweitzer

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

E. O. Wilson

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

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.