Filerack Quotes & Sayings

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded. — Walter Isaacson

Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain. — Thurman Munson

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing. — Tom Curren

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science with a twelve-hundred-year tradition of its own and that this science is Islamic not only because it was cultivated by Muslims, but because it is based on a worldview and a cosmology rooted in the Islamic revelation. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

23for f all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 g and are justified h by his grace as a gift, i through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God j put forward as k a propitiation l by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in m his divine forbearance he had passed over n former sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. — Anonymous

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. — Bono

Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once. — George Herbert

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others. — Simon Sinek

The biggest threat to the common working man is a bloated central government that is bankrupt. — K. Edwin Brandon

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future ... without having to wait for others to do so. — Mahatma Gandhi

That best academy, a mother's knee. — James Russell Lowell

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature. — Edward Abbey