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.

Sathya Baba

A pure thought from a pure heart is better than a mantra.

William Cowper

An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,/ Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

Lord Byron

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

David Gest

I wanted to give her a normal life. I loved her. You know, it tore my heart out.

Yajur Veda

Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like water of a river.

Mike DeWine

One day before he died, Michael was able to talk to Alicia via satellite phone. Alicia said that 'he just called to tell me he loved me with all his heart and soul,'

Albert Smith

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Ian Blair

These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Dean Koontz

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Arthur Young

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Alexander Pope

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

David Perlmutter

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Thomas de Quincey

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

Thomas Sydenham

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.