George Sarton Quotes

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

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• I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
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• Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Long
  • Health
  • Day

• I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Attention
  • Red
  • Blood

• Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Kid

• You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

  

  Mark McKinney
  • Night

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Act

• You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • True
  • Dream

• Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Moment
  • Happens
  • Focused

• I think that when you see the trailer [on movie "300"] - my feeling is anyway and maybe I'm not objective because I live it - but I think when you see it you immediately go, 'Okay, this is another sort of way of doing this.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.

  

  Nigel Gibson
  • Borders
  • Beginnings
  • Revolts

• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • City
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  • Moderation

• while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Space
  • Feels
  • Poet

• I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Made
  • Lord
  • Willing

• There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

  

  George Sarton
  • Goal
  • Scientist
  • Saint