Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Age
  • Like
  • Feel

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Man
  • Drink

• Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Teach
  • Walk

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Best

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Important
  • Help
  • Government

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Why
  • Job
  • Should

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Fear
  • Waiting
  • Inspired

• My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.

  

  Mark Parker
  • World
  • Power
  • Diversity

• Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

  

  Margo MacDonald
  • Bad
  • Hand

• Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

  

  Jacques Barzun

• Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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