Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Leo Tolstoy

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Peter Jurasik

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

Plato

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Plato

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Plato

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Jostein Gaarder

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Jostein Gaarder

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Kenneth Branagh

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Gregory Colbert

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

Ian Mckellen

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

Howard Gordon

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

Giambattista Vico

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Ho Chi Minh

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Jodie Foster

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

Cecilia Bartoli

This is the secret - the repertoire. You have to try to consolidate your repertoire. It is a big step if you know how to do that.

Kenny Perry

I told y'all you can't write that, ... Don't give my secret away.

Charlaine Harris

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

Adam Smith

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Adam Smith

A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.