Famous Quotes & Sayings

James D. Watson

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

Agatha Christie

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

Adrian Rogers

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Adrian Grenier

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Adam Johnson

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

We're not going to have credibility overnight, and we understand that.

Kailash Kher

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

David Schwimmer

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

We (send) them all over the United States.

We still have unfinished business. We still feel like we have something to prove.

Cyril Connolly

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

Dan Lipinski

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Dan Miller

My underwear is my own person buisness.

Dan Miller

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

Corrie Ten Boom

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Cornel West

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.