Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

Ernest Renan

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Help
  • Down
  • Impact

• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Duty
  • Him

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Born
  • Joining
  • Old-fashioned

• 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I was a little worried that I was going to look like an overgrown fetus … Maybe that’s true. But it’s liberating. It’s very liberating. Everyone here should shave their heads.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • True

• I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Women
  • Freedom

• Admettant que la particule possède une vibration interne qui permet de l'assimiler à une petite horloge, je supposais que cette horloge se déplaçait dans son onde de façon que sa vibration interne reste constamment en phase avec celle de l'onde : c'est le postulat de l'accord des phases.

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • Son

• When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

  

  Doug Henning
  • College

• I was just this little theater geek. I joined the drama program my freshman year. I read the morning announcements my sophomore year. I didn't have to eat in the cafeteria with everyone else because my drama teacher was cool. Everybody knew who I was, and that's all I ever wanted as a theater kid.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Morning
  • Cool
  • Teacher

• I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Attention

• I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work
  • Summer

• I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Funny

• I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Experience
  • Forever

• I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song
  • Candy

• My career is doing well both in Tollywood as well as Bollywood.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Career

• It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Opportunity
  • Energy
  • Hustle

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Knowledge

• It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

  

  Khaleda Zia
  • Practice
  • Patience

• None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

  

  Ernest Renan