Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Jane Hirshfield

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

Darrell Bevell

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Bob Pringle

He needs this right now, just to get his mind off the other stuff.

Robert Collier

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Thomas Sowell

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Robert Greene

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Tiger Woods

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.