Key Quotes - page 7

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. View quote
Randy Pausch
A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life. View quote
Neil Strauss
We're no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing. View quote
Bill Gates
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!" View quote
Conor Oberst
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution. View quote
Ernst Röhm
Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key; be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. View quote
William Shakespeare
The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries. View quote
Tim Buck
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss. (Johann Georg Hamann)
When we inquire about the general forms of economic phenomena, about their uniformities, or about a key to understanding them, we ipso facto indicate that we wish at that moment to consider them as something to be investigated, to be sought for, as the "unknown”; and that we wish to trace them to the relatively "known,” just as any science deals with its object of inquiry. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door. View quote
Ben Carson
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire - which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work - may be stated in two words: - the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks. View quote
Fritjof Capra
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. View quote
Larry Wall
The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock - this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness! (Guy de Maupassant)
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. View quote
Michael Ondaatje