Michael Faraday Quotes

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Meaning
  • Saying

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Good
  • Christmas
  • Looking

• As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Loved

• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • You
  • Say

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Different
  • Same
  • Clothes

• To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Great
  • God
  • Greatest

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fantasy

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
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• A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • College
  • Finish

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Legal

• If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • You

• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• Choosing my own songs wasn't available to me. Any time I turned in a song, it was dissected more than others'. ... There's nobody else like me in this space, so anytime they tried to compare me to somebody, they couldn't quite put their finger on it.

  

  Mickey Guyton
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• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  

  Little Richard
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Taken

• Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

  

  Silvio Santos
  • Reform
  • Intend
  • Social Justice

• I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

  

  Michael Faraday
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