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.

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Julian Bond

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

Arnold Glasow

Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Dan Hitchings

This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions.

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Benito Mussolini

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

Brian Tracy

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

Carol Alt

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

William Williams

The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.