Entering famous quotes
07-14-2025
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
-- Abraham Verghese -
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
-- Ade Edmondson -
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
-- Al Gore -
The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement
-- Al Gore -
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
-- Alexander Herrmann -
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
-- Allan Bloom -
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
-- Ami Ayalon -
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room...
-- Andrew Wiles -
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures contain all the knowledge required to deal with the problems of contemporary society.
-- Arnold Beichman -
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
-- Bill Courtney -
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
-- Bill Vaughan -
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
-- Billy Wilder -
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
You're either making a market or disrupting a market. Entering a market is usually the wrong way to go.
-- Brian Halligan -
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
-- Candice Millard -
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
-- Carl E. Olson -
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.
-- Christian Finnegan -
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
-- Claude Bernard -
Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.
-- Daniel S. Greenberg -
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
-- Dennis Lehane -
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.
-- Dennis Miller -
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
-- Derek Bok -
As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and lifting as our consciousness expands. This is a requirement for entering the new dimension with the raising of our vibrations and frequencies. The old paradigms and archaic belief systems must fall to the wayside to make room for the new.
-- Dolores Cannon -
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
-- E. M. Forster -
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.
-- Elie Wiesel -
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.
-- Gary Zukav -
On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.
-- George Biddell Airy -
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
-- Greg Noonan -
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
-- Harold Brodkey -
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
-- Haruki Murakami -
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
-- Helen Dunmore -
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.
-- Henry Tamburin -
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
-- Howard Rheingold -
We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.
-- Hugh Herr -
We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.
-- J. I. Packer -
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
-- Jacob K. Javits -
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.
-- Joe Bradley -
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
-- John Buford -
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
-- John Major -
The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.
-- John Muir -
The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.
-- John Trudell -
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.
-- Joseph Plaskett -
Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.
-- Kent Hovind -
The INS, by their actions, is telling would-be illegal aliens that if you don't get caught entering the U.S., we'll look the other way so you can stay.
-- Lamar S. Smith -
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
-- Lars von Trier -
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
-- Louis de Broglie -
I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!
-- Lynsay Sands -
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.
-- Mark Frost -
I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.
-- Martin A. Siegel -
The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.
-- Michael Beckwith -
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
-- Michael Cunningham -
I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
-- Miriam -
The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.
-- Moses ibn Ezra -
The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.
-- Nick Bantock -
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
-- Nora Ephron -
We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.
-- Oskar Lafontaine -
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.
-- Paul Klee -
You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.
-- Penny Lernoux -
He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
-- Philip Roth -
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
-- Pierre Bonnard -
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
-- Richard Matheson -
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
-- Robert Johnson -
God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.
-- Rumi -
[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.
-- Sally Stanford -
The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of the day doesn't make a profitable business nor satisfied customers, ... That's why it will be a part of Nintendo's strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it.
-- Satoru Iwata -
Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
-- Sri Chinmoy -
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis -
It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.
-- Steven A. Cohen -
At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.
-- Steven Chu -
When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.
-- Taheyya Kariokka -
Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
-- Tim Waterstone -
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
-- Walt Disney -
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.
-- Walter Russell -
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
-- Winston Churchill -
There are multiple things entering in your mind.
-- Chath Piersath -
When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.
-- Mark Ravenhill -
If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.
-- Martin Schulz -
I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.
-- Michal Rovner -
I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.
-- Miguel Gomes -
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
-- Tim O'Reilly -
What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it was an entering of the universe at a different point. So it's Planet of the Apes. We already know the ending. There's no mystery in that! It becomes Planet of the Apes. So it's not about what is at the end; it's about how did we get there? And that enabled something that was totally fresh, which was an ape-point-of-view movie.
-- Matt Reeves -
The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
-- Aristippus -
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.
-- Michael Martin Hammer -
America may be entering it’s Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.
-- Christian Finnegan -
Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
-- David Farragut -
I started entering in a series of problems I had never occupied myself with - water, production, employment. I am learning. You can do so many things. However, I don't feel guilty for living well here.
-- Franca Sozzani -
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.
-- Gilles Peress -
I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.
-- John L. Casti
