Source Quotes

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.