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.

Jennifer Rodriguez

He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.

Richelle Mead

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Sarah Dessen

Everyone had a forever.

Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

Sarah Dessen

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Sarah Dessen

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

William Lloyd Garrison

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Ryan Adams

Forever only takes its toll on some

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

Rachel Caine

But – Michael, you said you didn’t know Oliver, and–” “I didn’t, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

Terry Pratchett

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.

Teju Cole

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.