Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Aspect

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Abdul Kalam

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Eduardo Galeano

Development develops inequality.

Atom Egoyan

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

Albert Einstein

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Kim Gandy

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Greta Garbo

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Jim Elliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Guy Gavriel Kay

We are the total of our longings.

Michael Ratner

It is an outrage that the U.S. government put him before a tribunal that is essentially a court of conviction not of justice.

Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I'm writing.

Joe Biden

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Myles Munroe

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

Mark Mellman

Kerry had an opportunity in the debates to show the American people his strength and conviction and to lay out his plans, and people have responded very positively to that. So we see trends nationally moving in our direction and trends in battleground states moving towards us as well.

William M. Thackeray

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

Richard Cripps

There are no signs here that give you the impression that the selling pressure has bottomed. There's just not a lot of conviction out there.

William Cotton

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.