Renginys Quotes & Sayings

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that. — Isaac Newton

Want the thing you've never had? Then do the thing you've never done. — Josh Linkner

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ... — Susanna Centlivre

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed. — Aristotle.

One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way. — Mircea Andreescu

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere. — John Cleese

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them. — Sigrid Undset

I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether it be a Lawrence Krauss thinking that physics is rendering philosophy obsolete or a Sam Harris thinking that neuroscience is rendering moral philosophy obsolete - that it takes an awful lot of philosophy - philosophy of science in the first case, moral philosophy in the second - even to demonstrate the relevance of these empirical sciences. — Rebecca Goldstein

The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor. — Dan Scanlon

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. — Voltaire

Steel is the nation, went a Japanese saying. If the nation had a strong steel industry, then it would have a strong shipbuilding industry, and it would be a powerful, respectable nation again. Thus the efforts in the postwar years centered first and foremost on steel. The recovery did not come easily. At the end of the war only three of the nation's thirty-five blast furnaces were in operation, the others closed down as much from lack of raw material as from American bombs. The nation was poor, hard currency was limited, but the government poured much of its treasure into steel. By 1949 Japan had reached its prewar steel-production figures. — David Halberstam

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy

When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. — George Steiner

My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me — Haruki Murakami