Isaac Newton Quotes

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Isaac Newton

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• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Bold

• A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • History

• I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Women
  • Done
  • Death

• Certainly I would hope that this victory would be one that the guys say, 'Hey look, we're never out of something,' ... We're going to keep fighting no matter what. I hope we can kind of build on that and correct the things that we did poorly.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Fighting
  • Fight

• I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • Problem
  • Politics

• It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Pleasure

• I don't really have a fear of doctors, in the sense that they're going to do something bad to me. I don't have a fear of them eating me, or a fear of needles, or anything like that. I have a fear that I'm feeling completely fine, everything's good, and then when I go there, he's going to tell me something horrible.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• As a player, that's not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don't want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Responsibility
  • Player
  • Opinion

• Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Amazing
  • Judge
  • Gold

• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Earth
  • Alone
  • Fighting

• I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• You don't know who to believe. Like Abraham Lincoln. He said all men were created equal. He never went to a nude beach.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Beach

• But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

  

  J. G. Farrell
  • Wisdom
  • River
  • Plato

• It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • Thoughts
  • Spirit
  • Flow

• The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Mean
  • Ideas
  • Needs

• You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Looks
  • Idiot
  • Brown

• A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Good
  • Control
  • Spiritual

• 'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.

  

  Rich Moore
  • Great
  • Absurd
  • Animation

• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Instinct
  • Insects
  • Brutes