Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

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

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.

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.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Adolf Hitler

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

Adolf Hitler

There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)

Adam Carolla

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Angus Young

With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

Allan Bloom

The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Albert Einstein

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Robert Frost

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Robert Frost

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

Rita Dove

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

Robert Barry

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Dean Koontz

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Coco Chanel

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Lisa Dorfman

Either with expert advice or by evaluating your own personal needs.

Mark Twain

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

Adele Faber

A steady diet of it and a teen will stop coming to the mother for advice altogether.

Sam Brownback

at the end of the day, we were not given the documents that we believed we needed to give good advice and consent on this nomination.

S. Hughes

Counsel's advice to me was that they (SDI) do not have a valid claim for voting purposes.

John Schmidt

To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.