Course Quotes - page 3

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. (Terry Pratchett)
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The most decisive actions of our life I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are, more often than not, unconsidered. View quote
André Gide
The course of Nature is the art of God. View quote
Edward Young
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
The course of true love never did run smooth. View quote
William Shakespeare
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. View quote
Winston Churchill
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. (Niklaus Wirth)
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. View quote
Seth Lloyd
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. View quote
Albert Einstein
To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes. View quote
Malcolm Bradbury
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence. View quote
Vitruvius
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. View quote
Groucho Marx
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. (Truman Capote)
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve. View quote
Xi Jinping
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
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