Isaac Newton Quotes

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Isaac Newton

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• I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • American
  • Like

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Know
  • Moments
  • Fast

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Anybody
  • Month
  • Hang

• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Fire
  • Lead
  • Lit

• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Students

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• 'Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Party

• A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Man
  • Fame
  • Means

• You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Lyric

• 'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Christmas
  • Holiday

• There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Good

• Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.

  

  Kris Allen
  • World
  • Music
  • Attention

• I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • May

• The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

  

  Mary Astell
  • People
  • Power

• Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Reality

• Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers

• Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Pieces
  • Degrees
  • Who I Am

• Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.

  

  Mabel Collins
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Soul

• Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Themselves
  • Benevolence
  • Oppressed

• My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Important
  • Professional
  • Accomplishment

• The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Men
  • Women
  • Reason

• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Accomplishment
  • Lifelong
  • Celibacy