Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Nell Minow

They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

August Wilson

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Andrew Ference

We also share in the belief we do have what it takes in this locker-room and there's no great piece of the puzzle out there we're missing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

Charles Darwin

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.

Jimmy Carter

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Hugh Johnson

We had a very solid move up in stocks in the first quarter. There's a good chance that what the markets will be left with is a great deal of uncertainty or even the belief that more rate increases are coming.

David Rudolf

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me; it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement; and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

Joe Dumars

We're sitting here with 107 consecutive sellouts because we win. My personal belief is that winning supersedes everything.

Bertrand Russel

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety

John Silva

We actually enjoy them - their behavior and how they bounce around and stuff. They've always been a pleasure. Now rats, that's a different story.

Jennifer Lerner

We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effect on economic behavior in other, ostensibly unrelated situations.

Ken Fields

We're shocked by the allegations of this type of behavior and we're certainly work with the appropriate authorities to provide any information that we might have that might be useful. But our focus will remain on meeting the health needs of inmates.

Peggy Kennelly

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

Alice Bisno

Many of these laws are designed to improve safety for motorists by increasing penalties for unsafe driving behavior.

George A. Sheehan

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

Elizabeth Thornton

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

E. L. Konigsburg

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

Ernst Mayr

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.