Quotes 681 till 700 of 1105.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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Remember what the Patriarch King Solomon
Told his harem on the night they'd had a few:
Teetotalum overcoatum asqua scutum atomack
Sonata with tomoto, laringitis, cul de sac.
Translation: If your rhubarb's fallen try and bend it back.
That's a motto for the likes of me and you.Mottoes line 41 -
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.
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Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
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Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.''
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Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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