1594 Quotes & Sayings

I hate clocks. They tick. Other things make noises in their time and need, but clocks mechanically beat the seconds to death. — Kerry Greenwood

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work. — Karen Black

One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor. — Chuck Grassley

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it. — Norman Cousins

From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96. — Dominicus Corea

Let me learn now where Beauty is;
I was born to know her mysteries ... — Anne Spencer

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside. — Bill Hicks

A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. — Barbara Kingsolver

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know — Jim Rohn

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon. — Anthony Bourdain

Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently. — Taissa Farmiga

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. — Michael Jackson

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election — Tony Blair

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. — Kirk Douglas