Quotes 11041 till 11060 of 12035.
-
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
-
When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Source: Arutz Sheva (17 April 2010) -
When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
-
When a man grows old, wisdom will not keep him alive.
-
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
-
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
-
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
-
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.
-
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
-
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
-
When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
-
When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.
-
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
-
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
-
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
-
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
-
When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
-
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
All not-so-great famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 553)
