Quotes by American Authors - Page 60

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.
Mae West
No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
Man's security comes from within himself.
Manly Hall
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley Maclaine
Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H.L. Mencken
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity they seem more afraid of life than of death.
James F. Byrnes
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
John Cudahy
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
Henry Ford
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
Alice James
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.
Natalie Goldberg
If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
Helen Keller
Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.
Paul Bowles
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Louisa May Alcott
We search the world for truth we cull The good the pure the beautiful From all old flower fields of the soul And weary seekers of the best We come back laden from our quest To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
Albert Einstein
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms paper the canal lock the compass the rudder the mechanical clock the spinning wheel and the treadle.
Joseph and Frances Gies
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
Buckminster Fuller
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
Albert Einstein
The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.
Al Goodman
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.
Gregory Zilboorg
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.
E.Y. Harburg
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.
Douglas Yates
Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates
Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Albert Einstein
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.
William James
Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
J. K. Galbraith
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
Dennis Flanagan
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
Norbert Wiener
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
Martin Friedman
In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
George Santayana
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F Kennedy
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein