Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

Charles Darwin

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

Blaise Pascal

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Ayn Rand

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Ed Parker

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Ben Feldman

Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!

Adolf Galland

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

E. F. Schumacher

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Ani Difranco

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

Allen Tate

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Janez Drnovsek

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

Antonio Machado

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Greg Kutz

Orders were one of the key causes of the disputes and the problems.

John Olver

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Sarah McCabe

Risk of not eating properly causes obesity and heart attacks. It can give you all kinds of health problems. Everyone needs to exercise and eat nutritional food.

Mark Hyman

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Edwards Deming

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Stephen Flynn

It isn't the event but the sudden lack of faith in the system that it causes.

Gordon Brown

I welcome the Gates Foundation's announcement today. For far too long, world leaders have ignored the global tuberculosis epidemic, even as it causes millions of needless deaths each year.