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.

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.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Paul Walker

Our third goal is to increase our technology with students and staff,

Scott Bokelman

Defensively we picked it up, our goal is to hold people under 50 points, which we did. I though we did a pretty good job.

J. Taylor

(Code Pink's) goal is to undermine the morale of the soldiers.

Lawrie McKinna

Ante has always shown that he is a big-game player. He can go through a match doing nothing and all of a sudden produce a world-class goal that wins the game.

Bashar Assad

An improved administration is the key goal of this process. ... We need (change) today more than ever.

Alex Marlis

Anything can happen. Once we got those goals, we didn't quit.

Bryan Williams

The students know that we have a long-term goal this year, and they've been sticking to it. They've been making a lot of sacrifices and we've been doing very well.

Dennis Lyberger

(The sports psychologist) told us to know what our goals are and keep them in focus. It was time to reset our goals because of what happened.

Jess Grimes

The team goal is just to try to be around .500 and come up with some W's. We want to make an impact in the section again.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.