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.

Jay Wright

Allan has a serious injury and he's doing OK and being evaluated right now.

Rob Blake

You never want to see an injury like that happen.

Chad Pennington

I didn't even know about the injury until you told me about it after the game,

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Peter Thorne

I haven't played that much and then I got an injury at the worst possible time,

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Bobby Johnson

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

Publilius Syrus

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Matt Giampietro

It's just a world of difference. The brace is strictly for the type of injury he has.

Tom Malin

I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior.

Earl Campbell

I've learned that it's something that's never going to escape me, ... I've accepted it. That's no disrespect to my father, because I'm very proud to say that I'm Earl Campbell's son and nothing makes me happier. (But) I wanted to get out of my father's shadow and just be Tyler Campbell without people saying right away, 'You're Earl Campbell's son.' 

Richard Cobb

I've always thought this city was so beautiful, but the litter has given it a black eye. People have accepted it as our new reality and look at it as a problem that's bigger than they can handle. This is the mentality I'm working to change.

M. Wolfe

I wanted the experience to be the head coach of the track program, so I accepted the offer.

Diane Dean

I wanted to get involved in some theater group. I came down and tried out and they accepted me.

Hamid Hayat

advised the (witness) that he genuinely desired to attend a camp and strongly indicated in his final conversation with the (witness) that he had been accepted to 'training' and was going to attend the same after Ramadan in 2003.

Mike Verrill

The older guys have accepted the young kids and see what they can do. I think that had to happen.

Rick Parry

After considerable thought and discussion the board have decided to part company with the manager and Gerard has accepted it with typical good grace.

Frank Rizzo

After being accused of bribery (patronage jobs in exchange for being able to name candidates for District Attorney and City Controller) by Democratic City Chairman Peter Camiel, and being challenged by the Philadelphia Daily News to a lie detector test with himself, Commerce Director Harry Belinger, and Camiel, Rizzo accepted and said, "if this machine says a man lied, he lied." After the machine showed that Belinger and Rizzo were lying and Camiel was not, and he was asked about what he thought of lie detectors, he said, "that machine is full of crap.