Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over,… — Ben Wikler Copy Share Image
“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people.… — Conor Grennan Copy Share Image
What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young… — Vincent Harding Copy Share Image
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. That they become fads. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image