Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Mark Shields

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

Pat Oliphant

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Paul Weller

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Tracy Brown

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Paul Hubbert

Theoretically, they still have time to do it, but from a practical standpoint, I don't think they are going to let it happen.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Paul Verhoeven

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

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Jeremy Jordan

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.