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.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

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.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Jack Abramoff

Any ideas on how we can make sure she does not get it? Can you ping Karl on this?

Ben Silverman

The more ideas that pop, the more open to new ideas the American market is.

Sophia Collier

So much of being a success is perseverance as much as ideas,

Priscilla Howe

Say 'yes' to ideas that pop into your head. Don't screen them out. Go with the flow.

Joy Austin

I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked in nonprofit, humanities-oriented projects all of my life. For me personally, the opportunity to support people's ideas is critical.

Alex Tew

The whole time though, I always imagined a day when I would be my own boss. It was just a question of being persistent, trying out new ideas and waiting for a breakthrough.

Paul Carvel

The writer's pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies.

Nadine Lemmon

This is an important time for the public to get their input into the plan. If people have ideas of other trails, this is the time to put it on the map.

Wendy Johnson

This is an idea that has been suggested. It's been mentioned as one of several ideas that have been tossed about. It's no more of an idea than other ideas.

Caroline Lawrence

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Aubrey McClendon

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Jane Fonda

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

Jane Fonda

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

James Wan

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Candy Crowley

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.