Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

Roger Tory Peterson

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Anatoli Boukreev

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Gary Zukav

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

T. D. Jakes

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

T. D. Jakes

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

Walter Kirn

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Satish Kumar

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Ernest Holmes

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Ernestine Rose

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Alexander Haig

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

John Ortberg

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Marcus du Sautoy

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Nancy Friday

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

Stacy London

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Carl von Clausewitz

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan Pearsall Smith

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Suze Orman