Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 2761.
-
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
-
It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
-
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
-
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
-
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
-
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything -
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
-
It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
-
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Source: Cosmos (1980) 98 -
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
-
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
-
It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
-
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
-
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Source: On War (1832) -
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
-
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
-
It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
-
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
-
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
-
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
All cross-time famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 57)
