Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manly Hall

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

Lara Pulver

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see

Edward Boyden

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.

Heraclitus

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Grantland Rice

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

John L. Lewis

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

Jim Rohn

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Lynn Cohen

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

Adam Katz

This story is one of the more overblown stories I have ever seen,

Marc Morial

There are, as is the case, conflicting stories about what may have happened,

Patricia Polacco

My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

David Jeremiah

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

David Eddings

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?