Wells Quotes - Page 26

• Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Failure, World, Defeat

  "Recent Southern fiction: a panel discussion".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

  Emo Philips

  Life, Two, Three

  20 Copy quote

• You can't fake being able to cook well.

  Gail Simmons

  Fake People, Able, Cooks

  5 Copy quote

• Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

  Cesar Romero

  Fake People, Important, Hollywood

  9 Copy quote

• It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

  Rich Lowry

  Fake People, Able, People

  "Hillary the Calculator" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 24, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well: Love and Pain
  Be kinfolks twain;
  Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.

  Sidney Lanier

  Famous Love, Pain, Love Again

  Sidney Lanier, “A Song Of Love”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

  Martial

  Life, Inspirational Life, Alive

  7 Copy quote

• You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

  Francis Frangipane

  Attitude, Men, Speaks Out

  33 Copy quote

• They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Fate, Destiny, May

  9 Copy quote

• The best revenge is to live well.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stay Strong, Revenge, Live Well

  49 Copy quote

• I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Jesus, Pain

  "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series".

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

  John Hench

  People, Cynical, Intuition

  7 Copy quote

• What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.

  Bessie Anderson Stanley

  Love, Marriage, Children

  11 Copy quote

• Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  14 Copy quote

• Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Hair

  26 Copy quote

• The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.

  William Whewell

  Real, Acceptance, Science

  11 Copy quote

• Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen it from the beginning of the ages. If a being with such a mind existed, we could play no game of chance with him; we should always lose.

  Henri Poincare

  Powerful, Science, Law

  4 Copy quote

• To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Knowledge, Science, Expression

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

  Karl Pearson

  Knowledge, Science, Doe

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Science, Order, Iowa

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Views, Ideas

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.52, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Race, Ideas

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.

  Jesse Owens

  Games, Play, Rights

  91 Copy quote

• I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Care

  4 Copy quote

• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

  Anneli Rufus

  Being Alone, Solitude, Loner

  16 Copy quote