Important Quotes - Page 157

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlightenment and Mill, have sided with the powers that be.

I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.

What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.

There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.

The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is too much said, as it seems to me, about importance of the thumb... The thumb must lightly touch the neck and follow the forefinger when moving in different positions, aiding the hand to shift up and down without clutching the instrument.

The values of life are most important.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.

The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.