Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Gottfried Leibniz

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Gottfried Leibniz

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Immanuel Kant

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Immanuel Kant

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

Jesse Jackson

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Generally, I don't think words are what matters. It's what's happening.

The words 'defense contractor' kind of worries me.

Abdullah Gul

The words attributed to me are not correct.

It's not like us and I really don't know what happened. I have no words for it.

For Doug to say anything is remarkable, and for him to say that many words is very, very remarkable.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

I don't think there are any words I could come up with immediately for what that would mean.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.

It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Pema Chodron

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Pythagoras

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Nick Cave

I've got some words of wisdom.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Michel de Montaigne

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Kenny Smith

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Plato

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Michael Faraday

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

Ramana Maharshi

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.