Apothegms Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. — Arthur Schopenhauer

couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." "Doesn't make it right," said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. "You just can't convict a man on evidence like that - you can't." "You couldn't, but they could and did. — Harper Lee

But then someone turns the TV off. The screen goes black - goes black in an inward way, where the last thing left is a white dot in the center of the screen. And when the white dot burns out, it makes a soft electrical pop that makes me think, God has gone to sleep. — Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

1 Timothy 4:6, "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies. — Howard Zinn

Diogenes, in his mud-covered sandals, tramps over the carpets of Aristippus. The cynic pullulated at every corner, and in the highest places. This cynic did nothing but saboter the civilisation of the time. He was the nihilist of Hellenism. He created nothing, he made nothing. His role was to undo - or rather to attempt to undo, for he did not succeed in his purpose. The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. What would become of the cynic among a savage people where everyone, naturally and quite seriously, fulfils what the cynic farcically considers to be his personal role? — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

God help the patient. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. — Martin Lewis Perl

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me. — Enrique Iglesias

Few things move as quietly as the future. — Bernard Williams

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter. — Katrina Kaif

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music. — Jonny Lang

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology? — Will.i.am

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran. — Said Sayrafiezadeh