Everydaydeclarations Quotes & Sayings

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. — Paul Prudhomme

A lot of scientific evidence suggests that the difference between those who succeed and those who don't is not the brains they were born with, but their approach to life, the messages they receive about their potential, and the opportunities they have to learn. — Jo Boaler

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think. — Philip Schultz

Problems begin the moment we're born. We're born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That's inevitable. But what can you do? That's what it is to live. — Hayao Miyazaki

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. — Simon Newcomb

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness. — Philip Sidney

History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate. — Elizabeth Bowen

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles. — Sara Sheridan

To the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally passionate:
What! has not Being mind? and is not Being capable of being known? and, if this is admitted, then capable of being affected or acted upon?
in motion, then, and yet not wholly incapable of rest. Already we have been compelled to attribute opposite determinations to Being. And the answer to the difficulty about Being may be equally the answer to the difficulty about Not-being. — Plato

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous. — Judd Gregg

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth. — James Otis