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"The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures." »Earl Warren
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"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page." »Neil Postman
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"He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man." »Burmese Proverb
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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"Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it." »Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." »Saint Augustine
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." »Augustine, (AD 354-430)
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"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis
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"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden
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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." »Joan Baez
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"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page." »Saint Augustine
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"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature." »Arnold Bennett
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"The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page." »Bill Clinton
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"You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." »Paul Sweeney
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"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." »Earl Warren
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." »Helen Keller
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." »Helen Keller
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"Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined." »John Green
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"Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history." »William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can." »Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life." »Andrew Schneider
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"Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')" »David Glasgow Farragut
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"From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people." »Louis Adamic
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