Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 901 till 920 of 4330.

  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
    - +
     0
  • Boris Spassky For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • William Somerset Maugham For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Louis Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Paul Goodman For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Bridget Riley For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
    Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bing Gordon For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
    - +
     0
  • Harriet Martineau For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
    - +
     0
  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
    - +
     0
  • Bhagavad Gita For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
    - +
     0
  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
    - +
     0
  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
    - +
     0
  • Marguerite Duras For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
    - +
     0
All heavier-than-air famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 46)