Jules Verne Quotes
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
Jules Verne
Quotes to Explore
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Anita Loos
I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.
Dalai Lama
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
Thomas Hobbes
It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
Epictetus
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Confucius
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
Nathan Hale
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
William Bolcom
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.
John Ruskin
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Harry S Truman
