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
  • Hair
  • Kid
  • Tough

• 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
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • America
  • Indian

• 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
  • Music
  • Love

• 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
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Gay

• 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 first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Song
  • Sun

• 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

• When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• 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

• When you go a long time without rain, debris builds up in the ditches, ... And when the rain hits, it builds up in the ditches. And when the rain hits, it piles up in the mouth of the pipe. And that causes the blockage.

  

  Bob Wright
  • Rain
  • Causes
  • Builds

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Hand
  • Goal
  • Friendship

• Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

  

  Ernst Haas

• 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