Phaenomena Quotes

#1. The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phaenomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

Isaac Newton

#2. Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phaenomena of Nature?

Isaac Newton

#3. To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.

Isaac Newton

#4. The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

Evander Holyfield

#5. I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.

Graham Greene

#6. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.

Joe Hill

#8. I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.

Mike Vallely

#9. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. Long you must suffer, knowing not what,
until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.
Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. You have to understand, in this fight, the physical condition and technical preparation are not as important as character and will. The one who's willing to go until the end will win the match.

Ruslan Provodnikov

#13. I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Mark Twain

#14. If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

Anna Quindlen

#15. We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

Brit Hume

#16. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

Robert Treat Paine

#17. As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.

P.G. Wodehouse