Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Jamie Sives

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Janis Ian

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Gary L. Francione

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

Bob Dylan

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Carl Yastrzemski

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

Jane Yolen

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Brennan Manning

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

Blaise Pascal

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Blaise Pascal

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Robert Kiyosaki

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Javier Solana

The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire,

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Mike Sanders

The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Fred Couples

You're on the International side, and you're helping me out?

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Apollonius of Tyana

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.