Charles Lyell Quotes

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Charles Lyell

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• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Me
  • Artist

• If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Boring
  • Elections

• I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Point
  • Case
  • Obscure

• I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Landscape

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.'

  

  Ben Nicholas
  • Done

• You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

  

  Martin H. Fischer

• It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Music

• It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Life
  • Live
  • Church

• No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

  

  Charles Lyell
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