Quotes of: Nobel-peace-prize Keyword

Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you. - Dr....

Cat's Cradle

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to scienc...

Richard Dawkins

Christians believe, as is reported in the New Testament scriptures, that Jesus of Nazareth healed 10 men with leprosy. It sounds like an astounding feat, but compare that to Jacinto Convit who saved thousands of lives when he developed the vaccine th...

David G. McAfee

Guido: The prize is... the prize is... Eliseo Orefice: A tank. Guido: Yes! Yes, the prize is a tank. Giosué Orefice: I already have one. Guido: No, a real one. Giosué Orefice: A real tank?

Life Is Beautiful

Mutlu olabilmek için her gün bir miktar edebiyatla ilgilenmem gerekiyor.

My Father's Suitcase: The Nobel Lecture

It is ill prizing of green barley.

English

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Katharine Hepburn

Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peacef...

Love

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Stanford Moore

Peace is in selfless caring Peace is in true understanding Peace is in undeserved kindness Peace is in joyful forgiveness Peace is in innocent trust Peace is in becoming just Peace is in a dancing butterfly Peace is in a clear starry sky Peace is a c...

Debasish Mridha

Peace is a way of life. Peace is a way of love. Peace is a heart’s forgiveness. Peace is a mind’s kindness. Peace is living in harmony. Peace is living with courtesy. Peace is living with trust. Peace is living with truth and trust. Peace is livi...

Debasish Mridha

I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I wish I could name them all and tell you their ...

Love

On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...

10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

Destiny The chicken I bought last night, Frozen, Returned to life, Laid the biggest egg in the world, And was awarded the Nobel Prize. The phenomenal egg Was passed from hand to hand, In a few weeks had gone all round the earth, And round the sun In ...

Marin Sorescu

Seth Brundle: What's there to take? The disease has just revealed its purpose. We don't have to worry about contagion anymore... I know what the disease wants. Ronnie: What does the disease want? Seth Brundle: It wants to... turn me into something el...

The Fly

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Andrew Harvey

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture