Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Andy Coulson

Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press.

Keith O'Brien

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

Paul Lynde

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

George Will

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

Margaret Bourke-White

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Howard Shore

'Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

James Buchan

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Veerappa Moily

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

Robert A. Cook

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Trey Parker

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Theo Rossi

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

Djimon Hounsou

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Clive Anderson

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Bunker Roy

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Nicholas Meyer

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Johann Lamont

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

Irving Langmuir

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Rupert Sheldrake

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Heinz Pagels

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

John Polkinghorne

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Carol W. Greider

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Iain Banks

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Henry Petroski

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Aleister Crowley

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Eric Gill

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Charles Jencks

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Brian Greene

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Huston Smith

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Erwin Chargaff

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Gregory Bateson

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Heinrich Rohrer

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Vera Rubin

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

Adrian Peterson

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

Ian Allison

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

Cobie Smulders

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Ahmed Zewail

Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.

Lennart Meri

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Patty Murray

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

Susan L. Taylor

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.