Correct Quotes - page 2

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. (Robert E. Lee)

In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

John C. Calhoun

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'

George Clooney

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that they're going on.

Julian Assange

It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

Vitruvius

The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

Vitruvius

Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

Vitruvius

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

Michio Kaku

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

Tony Blair

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

John Chrysostom

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Augustine of Hippo

All of the character traits, which are in such great need of correction and cultivation-who will cultivate and correct them if we do not give heart to them and subject them to exacting scrutiny?

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Augusten Burroughs

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

Augusten Burroughs

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Andy Stern

I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

Christopher McDougall

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

Marie Windsor

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. (Bruce Beresford)

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Mary Hart

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [Entwerfende] part, the latter the executive part.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Previous
1
2 (Current)
3
4
...
43
Next