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.

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.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Billy Corgan

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

Edmund Burke

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Maurice Chevalier

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

John Ralston Saul

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Michael Crichton

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Hippocrates

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Horace

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...

Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Thomas Jefferson

A little revolution is a good thing.

Thomas Merton

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Ron Paul

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Ron Paul

Let the revolution begin.

Storm Jameson

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Stephen Spender

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.