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"The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure." »Kedar Joshi
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"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself." »Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron." »George Will
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." »Bette Davis
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"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." »Quentin Crisp
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"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear." »Douglas Adams
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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber
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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war." »Golda Meir
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it) but 'That's funny ...'" »Isaac Asimov
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"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true." »H. G. Wells
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"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it." »Malcom Gladwell
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"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." »Paul Weyrich
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"History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." »C. P. Snow
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"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need." »John Dewey
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." »Albert Einstein
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"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart 'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error The strong and virtuous admit no destiny." »E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
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"Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged." »Ovid, Metamorphoses
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"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other." »Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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