Phrases Quotes

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Stephen Fry
- Mean
- Wells
- Phrases
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Camille Desmoulins
- Mean
- Revolution
- Citizens

Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

Anthony Robbins
- Past
- Quality
- Identity
I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

Kevin James
- Thinking
- Phrases
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

Camille Flammarion
- Earth
- Universe
- Planets
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

Lao Tzu
- Masters
- Phrases
- Tao
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

William Congreve
- Art
- Deals
- Retailers
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

E. T. A. Hoffmann
- True
- Thoughts
- Inspired