Quotes of: Pain Keyword

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

August Strindberg

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

Nathan Myhrvold

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Sean Parker

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

T. Boone Pickens

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Auguste Comte

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Bill Frist

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Brian Greene

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Jules Verne

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Leonard Mlodinow

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Louise Slaughter

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Mike Johanns

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill