Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

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

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a 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

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

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.

Ayn Rand

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jane Hirshfield

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

Jane Hirshfield

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Allan Gurganus

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.