George Coyne Quotes

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Energy
  • Matter
  • Diet

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Win
  • Born
  • Plan

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Wish

• I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Learn

• I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Good
  • Taken

• No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Single
  • Human
  • Sacrifice

• In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Noise
  • Vacuum

• Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Done
  • Stones

• And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Sometimes
  • Ability

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• All those calls and meetings were fire fighting. I remind myself. No fires, no fighting. Now, everything is running smoothly— almost too smoothly.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Fighting
  • Fire
  • Meetings

• So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Mad

• When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

  

  Wilfred Funk
  • Words
  • Wars
  • Settle

• Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

  

  George Coyne
  • Ability
  • Development
  • Christianity