Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Ashwin Sanghi

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

Ding Lan

Our understanding is you should wear something red for the whole year to keep off the evil spirits. It can be red underwear, a red belt, or even red socks.

Eric Roberts

I'm hoping to get out of playing evil incarnate people, and hopefully play more people like myself. I hope people see me as likeable.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

C. S. Lewis

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C. S. Lewis

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

C. S. Lewis

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Carl Rogers

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Bette Davis

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

Cristina Saralegui

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

David Hillery

There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Jack Germond

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

Marisa Williams

It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.

Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

George Bernard Shaw

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.