Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 5374.
-
The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.
-
The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.
-
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
-
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
-
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
-
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
-
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
-
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
-
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
-
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
-
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
-
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
-
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
-
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
-
The separation between the two cultures has been getting deeper under our eyes; there is now precious little communication between them.... The traditional culture... is, of course, mainly literary... the scientific culture is expansive, not restrictive.
New Statesman, 6 October 1956 -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
-
The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
-
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
All (there famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 131)
