Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Bret Easton Ellis

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Anna Jameson

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Clive Anderson

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

Aesop

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Ali Khamenei

Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

Amelie Nothomb

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alfred de Musset

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Andre Dubus

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.

Ari Schwartz

Seems as though it takes a violation of peoples' privacy to make people pay attention.

Olivia Mellan

Put a picture in your wallet of what you're wishing for. That way every time you go to pay for something it will be staring you in the face.

Joe Rooney

It was tough. We want to pay them back a little bit.

Harley Viera-Newton

I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

Dale Tallon

I understand. Listen, we have to pay the fiddler. I'll take responsibility.

Linda Perry

I understand why people don't want to do that, but I just think the pay out of doing that is so much greater.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I understand. Wherever Eunice is, don't pay any attention,

Madonna Madonna

This is embarrassing, ... I thought we were all up to date. If we owe, we will pay it (today).

Jack Kingston

This is not going to pay for all prescriptions,