Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
Antonio Porchia
I've really only had one (dream) since I got into this business at 13 years old, which was to be in this business forever. Once I did my first television commercial, I caught that itch and that bug. I want to be a part of pieces of art - as far as cinema is concerned - that people will want to see for generations to come. That's my dream.
Leonardo DiCaprio
It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.
Angelina Jolie
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
Alison Lurie
Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
Marian Wright Edelman
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
R.K. Narayan
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.
Norman Vincent Peale
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
John Locke
Nazareth
He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.
Walter Kerr
But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed.
William Shakespeare
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
Arthur Ashe
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
