(539 quotes found)
“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci”
Antoine Lavoisier
“If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.”
William S. Gilbert
“If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.”
Anne Bradstreet
“That's what we need, some guys that have done well at their level. I tell them they're far more advanced at their age than I was. I couldn't play like they could when I was in my early 20s.”
Mike Weir
“As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.”
James Anthony Froude
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them”
William Osler
“It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.”
Samuel Johnson
“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die”
Mary Matalin
“Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.”
Walter Lippmann
“The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.”
Charles Towne
