Quotes About Sources

#1. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

Ken Livingstone

#2. Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Clayton M Christensen

#3. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.

Thomas Mann

#4. It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Judy Woodruff

#5. These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Nelson Algren

#7. you sugar cravings is seeking other sources of pleasure. It's not the sweet that our brain urges us to give it - it's satisfaction.

Dylan McGregor

#8. As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#9. So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.

Anonymous

#10. And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Brian De Palma

#11. It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

John Petrucci

#12. It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Peter Kreeft

#13. When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.

Pierre Omidyar

#14. Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

Judith Miller

#15. I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

Gene Baur

#16. As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

#17. I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

Chris Johnson

#18. I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller

#19. White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

Andy Borowitz

#20. One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

Margaret Wertheim

#21. Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.

Tom Baker

#22. No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Renee Fleming

#23. So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

Rose Tremain

#24. The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

Al Gore

#25. The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

Edmund White

#26. Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#27. Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

Donella Meadows

#29. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

#30. Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

Gore Vidal

#31. It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.

Gary Pruitt

#32. How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?

Yunus D. Saleh

#33. Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation ... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

Anais Nin

#34. We are against war and the sources of war.
We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

#35. The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

Daniel Yergin

#36. She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

David Mitchell

#37. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

#38. However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.

Virgil Goode

#39. If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Thomas Sowell

#40. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.

Rudolf Flesch

#41. I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources
Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Umberto Eco

#42. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#43. The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Cofer Black

#44. If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Matthew Simpson

#45. According to your sources
if you strike life with the radical
when it cracks
the inside's going to glow
with the translucence of red wine.

Below us people in dark coats stream home,
faces unavailable for comment.

Lori Lamothe

#46. History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Victor Davis Hanson

#47. Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.

Dimitar Sasselov

#48. In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

Radhanath Swami

#49. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#50. You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking.

Evgeny Morozov

#51. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).

David Frum

#52. When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

Linus Torvalds

#53. My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

John M. McHugh

#54. But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

George Eliot

#55. That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

Thomas L. Friedman

#56. It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag.

Stephen Kinzer

#57. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.

Rudolf Steiner

#58. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

Laura Poitras

#59. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

Mandy Hale

#60. We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Ayn Rand

#61. The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Noam Chomsky

#62. The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Lord Acton

#64. Without the real enjoyment afforded by hospitality, mindless entertainment fills the vacuum, substituting fantasy for reality. The sophisticated replaces the simple, and the exotic and the expensive become the desirable sources of pleasure.

Mitchell Kalpakgian

#65. Innovative technologies such as cold fusion, and radical energy sources, including sonoluminescent-triggered fusion and anti-gravitational propulsion, are either being withheld or blocked by governments, old-fashioned science academia and multinational corporations.

Takaaki Musha

#66. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

Nelson Algren

#67. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

#68. Love heals violence and all its sources

Bryant McGill

#69. Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would set off an alarm if ordered from unauthorized sources would simply be "misdelivered" to the SD where he would pick it up after-hours.

Marcha A. Fox

#70. Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

Evan Esar

#71. We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Allan Savory

#72. Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

Daniel Greenberg

#73. All people believe in America, jobs, creating energy here, not being dependent on foreign energy sources.

Lynn Jurich

#74. A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Leon Festinger

#75. Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.

Jonathan Sacks

#76. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

Bertrand Russell

#77. It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.

Constantin Stanislavski

#78. And, while Jessica had faith enough in Providence, she preferred to seek help from more accessible sources. Her assistant was Phelps, the coachman.

Loretta Chase

#79. For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

Elaine Pagels

#80. The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

Tim Scott

#81. I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

Peter MacKay

#82. I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

Peter Ackroyd

#83. Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

William Least Heat-Moon

#84. Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.

Hendrik Poinar

#85. We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle.

Arianne Cohen

#86. And I saw then again, and for good, what I had always been afraid to see, and had pretended not to see in him: that he was a woman as well as a man. Any need to explain the sources of that fear vanished with the fear; what I was left with was, at last, acceptance of him as he was.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#87. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

Stephen Jay Gould

#88. As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

Josh Fox

#89. In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

Julian Assange

#90. A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Mary Tyler Moore

#91. My greatest inspiration had come from messages delivered through spirit sources, who seemed to guide my every step.

Linda Tucker

#92. This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#93. It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

Lisa Firestone

#94. Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

Peter Lindbergh

#95. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

#96. You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Steven Erikson

#97. As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.

Anna Halprin

#98. If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

Anthony Bourdain

#99. To acknowledge the existence of other people is also to acknowledge that they are not reliable sources of safety or comfort.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#100. I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Leon Redbone