All Quotes

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
‐‐ Dave Davies

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.
‐‐ Lee R. Raymond

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
‐‐ Jacob Lew

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
‐‐ Robert Mugabe

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
‐‐ James Henry Breasted

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
‐‐ Erik Larson

We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
‐‐ Menachem Begin

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
‐‐ Eamon de Valera

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
‐‐ Bernard Werber

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
‐‐ George Orwell

We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care for full-throated operatic singing. And why should it? Down through the ages, it has been the simple song which has lived and continues to touch the heart of humanity. And so it is with singing.
‐‐ Rudy Vallee

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.
‐‐ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
‐‐ John Searle

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
‐‐ Tony Curtis

We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. ...There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
‐‐ Aesop

We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
‐‐ Katherine Boo

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
‐‐ John Lubbock

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.
‐‐ Stella Young

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court's own legitimacy and authority.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent and strong about these things. And that's quite dangerous when it comes to depression, because talking about it helps. People bottle it up until it's too late.
‐‐ Matt Haig

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
‐‐ Silvia Cartwright

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
‐‐ Charles Kettering

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.
‐‐ James Comey

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
‐‐ Richard Burr

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.
‐‐ Joshua Foer