Famous Quotes, Funny Sayings, Quotations About Love And Life

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.


It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.


I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.


I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.


Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.


As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.


Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.


We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.


The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.


Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.


I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.


A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.


The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.


People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.


You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.


Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.


I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.


Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.


I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.


At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.


In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.


I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.


I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.


I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.


You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.


To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.


There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.


Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.


If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.


I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.


I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.


As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.


Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.


There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.


Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.


Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.


The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.


Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.


Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.


A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.


Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?


If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.


I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.


To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.


The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.


The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.


It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.


This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.


In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.


Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.


The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.


The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.


No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.


Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.


I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.


Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.


A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.


Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.


As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.


Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.


Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.


I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.


Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.


The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.


The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.


To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.


We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.


When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.


That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.


Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.


In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.


Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.


You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.


Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.


This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.


Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.


Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.


The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.


When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.


You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.


It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.


Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.


Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.


When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.


Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.


The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.


Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.


People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.


Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.


Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.


Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.


I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.


I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.


I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.


I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.


A lot of things just aren't true any more.