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.

Michael Chertoff

Speed was of the essence when the hurricane hit,

Bill Ferguson

Purpose is the natural expression of who you are. It utilizes all your gifts and talents. It's your passion and you are very good at it. Life purpose is the very essence of you.

John Hale

The same essence with this relation, that it proceedeth, maketh the person of the Holy Ghost.

John Hale

The same essence with this relation that it is begotten, maketh the person of the Son.

Dennis Jett

You're in essence going to shoot in the head a $626 million industry. It doesn't make any sense . . . You're sending the message that foreigners need not apply. I just think it's one of the most perverse, and poorly thought through and counterproductive pieces of legislation you could imagine.

Ashton Eaton

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Boethius

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Carson Kressley

I love music. I love going out dancing.

Ajay Naidu

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Paula Creamer

Everyone was dancing and telling jokes, and plenty of things that need to stay in that motor home.

Alfred Noyes

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

Alison Brie

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

Robert Henri

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.