Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Burt Rutan

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Bryant H. McGill

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Bryant H. McGill

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Catherine Keener

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Carter Burwell

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Alain de Botton

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mon cher, you are a simpleton. You really don't understand a thing.

George H. W. Bush

Mr. Castro, once, just once, show that you're unafraid of a real election.

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Sven Eriksson

No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that.

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Lykke Li

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Bas Rutten

Everybody underestimates the kick to the groin.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Eliot Engel

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

Eleanor Smeal

We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.

Eleanor Smeal

Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

Eleanor Smeal

Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary ]Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.

Deepak Chopra

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

Deepak Chopra

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of the brain, which can be reshaped by the power of your mind to bring you the world you desire. Knowing that, the obvious question arose: Why not use your mind to create the brain you want, using conscious choice?

Deepak Chopra

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

Deepak Chopra

Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles.

Deepak Chopra

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Deepak Chopra

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

Deepak Chopra

By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives.