Source famous quotes
07-17-2025
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
-- Adam Clarke -
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
-- Al Gore -
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
-- Al-Kindi -
The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently
-- Albert Einstein -
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.
-- Ali Babacan -
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
-- Allan Sloan -
A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
-- Andrew Ferguson -
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
-- Andrew Johnson -
We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions—we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.
-- Anita Moorjani -
A stream cannot rise higher than its source.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
-- Anna Lindh -
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
-- Aristotle -
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
-- Aristotle -
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
-- Arthur Baer -
Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?
-- Asghar Farhadi -
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.
-- Augustus William Hare -
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
-- B. Alan Wallace -
The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.
-- B. B. King -
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
-- Bernard M. Oliver -
A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
-- Bill Bonner -
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
-- Billy Collins -
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
-- Blaise Pascal -
I am so happy and grateful now - that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis.
-- Bob Proctor -
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
-- Bob Woodward -
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
-- Bob Woodward -
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
-- Bobby Flay -
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
-- Brian De Palma -
In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.
-- Brian Littrell -
Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.
-- Brian Tracy -
A work of art is a renewable source of energy.
-- Brice Marden -
My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.
-- Bruce Lee -
Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
-- Bruce Lee -
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
-- Charles Babbage -
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
-- Charles Edward Merriam -
Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security
-- Charles Hendry -
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.
-- Charles Kimball -
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
-- Charlie Dent -
The true source of happiness is within each of us.
-- Chris Prentiss -
I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.
-- Christopher Nolan -
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
-- Coco Chanel -
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
-- Conrad Hall -
The source of all life and knowledge is in #‎ man and #‎ woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.
-- Dalai Lama -
The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness
-- Dalai Lama -
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
-- Dallas Willard -
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
-- Daniel Pauly -
he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.
-- David Levithan -
Every source of blessing is a point of attack.
-- David McGee -
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
-- David Mitchell -
Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.
-- Denis Waitley -
The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
-- Derek Fisher -
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
-- Diane Wakoski -
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.
-- Don Chipp -
The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
-- Edmund Leach -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
-- Edward Hirsch -
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.
-- Edward Jenks -
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.
-- Ellen Gilchrist -
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
-- Elvis Presley -
The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine
-- Emily Saliers -
As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.
-- Eric Schlosser -
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.
-- Erik Naggum -
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.
-- Ernst Mach -
The source of genius is imagination alone.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.
-- Federico Fellini -
The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
-- Ferdinand Lassalle -
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-- Fran Tarkenton -
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.
-- Francois Mauriac -
New customers are the best source of new business
-- Frank Bettger -
No stream rises higher than its source
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
-- Frederick Buechner -
The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.
-- Gabriel Fackre -
I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.
-- Gene Tierney -
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
-- George Eliot -
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
