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.

Stacy Kim

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Brandon Sanderson

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

Arthur Mitchell

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

Brian Johnson

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.

Jan Karon

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

Carl von Clausewitz

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Bryant H. McGill

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Celia Imrie

I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Tom Guiry

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Douglas Adams

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

David Platt

We are not the end of the gospel; God is.

David Lodge

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

David Hasselhoff

Failure usually works for me in the end.

Anne Hutchinson

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Ann Voskamp

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.