Syene Quotes & Sayings

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. — Louis Nizer

Oh my love, you are my life boat in the ocean of my life. — Debasish Mridha

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in. — Anthea Turner

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian. — Billy Bob Thornton

No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is. — Hilary Kornblith

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. — T.H. White

For the observed difference in the shadow lengths, the distance between Alexandria and Syene had to be about seven degrees along the surface of the Earth; that is, if you imagine the sticks extending down to the center of the Earth, they would there intersect at an angle of seven degrees. Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth. Eratosthenes knew that the distance between Alexandria and Syene was approximately 800 kilometers, because he hired a man to pace it out. Eight hundred kilometers times 50 is 40,000 kilometers: so that must be the circumference of the Earth. — Carl Sagan

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. — Naveen Jain

Is there anything
more adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?
I've never done that in my life. — Nick Hornby

It took fifty-eight minutes to pack the furniture and plants. Then I tackled the bathroom. I was astonished by the number of cosmetic and aromatic chemicals that Rosie owned. It would presumably have been insulting for me to tell her that, beyond the occasional dramatic use of lipstick or perfume (which faded rapidly after application due to absorption, evaporation or my becoming accustomed to it), they made no observable difference. I was satisfied with Rosie without any modifications. — Graeme Simsion

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it. — Corita Kent

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career. — Kalup Linzy

Also, I didn't trust any guy who used more styling products than I did. — Richelle Mead

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important. — Edward De Bono