For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of… — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more… — Andrew Mack Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating… — Biloine W. Young Copy Share Image
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields.… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If I heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
After earning my university degrees and working for a few years, I wrote to NASA to request an application package. Seven months… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too,before others quite reasonably, and it looks as tho I felt, too,… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
