Derivable Quotes & Sayings

Life is too magnificent to complain. — Debasish Mridha

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'? — Robin Hobb

And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it. — Gilbert Blane

It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground. — Rene Girard

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing. — Talcott Parsons

It was hard to really hate someone so good-looking. That was just the unfairness of life. — Mia Sheridan

Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983? — Bob Seger

Reason will always be logical,
Logic not always reasonable,
For truth from reason derivable,
And logic falsehood multipliable. — Munindra Misra

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they're meant to have by really being used. ... when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they've earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they're untouchable. — Nate Berkus

To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. — Edgar Allan Poe

I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it. — Nina Dobrev

I was an afterthought, five thousand years later. A mistake, because Ciana was gone. I was the dissonant note on the end of a masterpiece symphony. I was the brushstroke that ruined the painting. — Jodi Meadows

Our existence here, he says, is a case of "not we the accidental but we the expected." Mathematician Manfred Eigen wrote in 1971, "The evolution of life, if it is based on a derivable physical principle, must be considered an inevitable process. — Kevin Kelly

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B.C. Forbes

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. — Alistair Begg

The marginal utility of money to any individual, i.e., the marginal utility derivable from the goods that can be obtained with the given quantity of money or that must be surrendered for the required money, presupposes a certain exchange-value of the money; so the latter cannot be derived from the former. 1 Those who have realized the significance of historically-transmitted values in the determination of the objective exchange-value of money will not find great difficulty in escaping from this apparently circular argument. — Ludwig Von Mises

Before I was on 'Idol,' I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It's the best feeling ever. — Jessica Sanchez

The whole place seemed like the look-don't-touch kind of home. Perfectly manicured. Never enjoyed. — Cynthia Hand

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it. — Nicky Hilton

We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed. — L. Lionel Kendrick

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf. — Lori Lansens

Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America? — Arthur Carhart

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. — Mark Udall