Nicole Oresme Quotes

The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.

Nicole Oresme

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• I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • London
  • Niece
  • Recognised

• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Way
  • Nice
  • Competitive

• Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Company
  • Social
  • Convinced

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Small

• I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Family
  • Win
  • Sister

• I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Live
  • Done
  • Problem

• There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Future
  • Past
  • Know

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Comedy

• If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Law

• If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • America
  • Struggle

• It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

  

  Neymar

• What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Values

• I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Eye

• Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Good
  • Book
  • Library

• Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Women
  • Jesus
  • Slavery

• The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.

  

  Nicole Oresme
  • System
  • Scripture
  • Symmetry