Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

Kary Mullis

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Matthew Arnold

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Jack Canfield

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Granth Sahib

In the midst of children, spouse and relations, some still remain detached; they are pleasing to Your Will. Inwardly and outwardly, they are pure, and they are absorbed in the True Name.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Alain de Botton

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Barry Diller

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

August Krogh

The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.

Arnold Newman

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Denis Leary

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

Dee Hock

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Diana Gabaldon

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

Dennis Muren

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Dennis Muren

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Alan Dean Foster

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.