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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious di...
PETER C. DOHERTY I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR I am one of those who think, like MARIE CURIE I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am roo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am satisfied with the work we have done so far, even if we're only halfway there,
MARCELLO LIPPI Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
ALFRED BERNHARD NOBEL The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, direct...
HERBERT A. SIMON What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thous...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
BERTHA VON SUTTNER Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA Of course I am very satisfied - to win seven games and lose one is rather good isn't it.
LARS LAGERBACK I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it ...
HAROLD WILLIAMS I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it ...
HAROLD WILLIAMS I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something...
JASON LETTS Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterpri...
CHARLES H. TOWNES I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
UNKNOWN I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman
I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question
I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species
I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u...
I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them
I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out
I AM TIMEPIECE Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Acade...
DALE T. MORTENSEN I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.
DAVID JOHANSEN I don't try to be the best; I try to be my best. If I am the best than I'm happy, and if I'm not, I'...
DENEAN KELSON It was our first one-to-one meeting, and I am very satisfied with it,
AYUB KHAN I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stic...
CECIL RHODES Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his gen...
ABDUS SALAM I have been here for only a week and seen the way things work. I am going to have ideas of what I wo...
DEBORAH GILBERT I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly
CARL ROGERS I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
BECKY SHARP I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I think to be in the elite group of five in each category is an achievement in itself and if you are...
INZAMAM-UL Government does not need to get involved in hauling trash. If it turns out to be a good idea, that's...
BILL BIRD I am still learning and still have a lot to learn. I still have a lot to prove. Playing this game yo...
IKE TAYLOR I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
ALAN RICKMAN I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a...
JOHN BURROUGHS The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing in...
AURORA I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
GRANDMA MOSES I will not be a man satisfied until I am a man exhausted.
COREY TAYLOR I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.
BELLA JAMES I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I definitely care. I'm very competitive, but I am satisfied with my delivery and that I only missed ...
C.C. SABATHIA I think we have a responsibility to send them out on a good note. I don't know - happy? I think ever...
MAX MUTCHNICK If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
TIMOTHY FERRISS I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it
ANNA MARY ROBERTSON MOSES I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a reve...
DAN PEARCE Innovation should not be carried out only by engineers. Every one might have new ideas every day.
DR. LI WANLIN Turns out, I wasn't the only one struggling with doubt. I wasn't the only one questioning my church'...
RACHEL HELD EVANS You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but e...
PIET MONDRIAN I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE I will be monitoring the situation closely and, if I am not satisfied that sufficient progress is be...
CHARLIE MCCREEVY The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one b...
MARIE LU One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
ARISTOTLE You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY I was a little bit nervous because I knew I was in good shape coming in and wouldn't be satisfied if...
BJOERN LIND You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not co...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gamb...
JOANNA RUSS I don't care if it's one dollar or a thousand dollars - I'm going to go out and get it.
BLAC CHYNA I love you Utanapishtim. Ziasudra. And if I die tonight, my only regret will be that we didn't have ...
MAGGIE SHAYNE I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with ...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
OSCAR WILDE I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nob...
HOWARD FLOREY Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...
LEON URIS I’m the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
COLLEEN HOOVER I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable...
DALE ADAMS I can only be who I am.
ENYA I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it&#...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness no...
ALFRED DAY HERSHEY I just have that mindset. I have to get my share of points and have to make sure the others get thei...
SHEENA ADEN In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production co...
ADRIAN GRENIER If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the sp...
BHAGAVAD GITA If this turns out to be a good deal, there's no doubt that we'll be pushing the U.S. government to d...
LLOYD WOOD I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel...
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA My friends, if there is one gift in my omniscience, it’s the knowledge I have of just how much goo...
SEAN PATRICK BRENNAN I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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ALFRED HAYES It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandabl...
ALFRED EINSTEIN Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH