Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

Trisha Goddard

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Virginia Woolf

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Viola Spolin

It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

William Westmoreland

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Oswald Chambers

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Josh Billings

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Judith Martin

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Heinrich Heine

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

Henry Ward Beecher

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Edgar Friedenberg

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

David Blunkett

I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

Jeff Lindsay

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Neil Cavuto

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

Kamal Ahmed

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Peter Harding

There was a lot of anti-social behaviour last year,

Adolf Hitler

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

Donald Davidson

If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.

Alfred Adler

Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.