Categories Starting with “P”

“We would like to see you departing peacefully.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”

— Marie Curie

Explore persistence quotes from renowned thinkers and authors.

“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”

— Blaise Pascal

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

— Robert Frost

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”

— Plato

“The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.”

— Bill Gates

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.”

— Charles Darwin

“Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.”

— Donald Trump

“Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.”

— Bill Gates

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.”

— Bill Gates

“India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.”

— Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger