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.

Tarshanda Ferguson

A win is a win, but it was an ugly one. I'm very disappointed on the way that we played. We did not play hard, and we were not focused.

Aaron Rowand

No win is an ugly win, because, at the end of the year, that's one more win you wouldn't have had. And they're all beautiful.

Aaron Rowand

No win is an ugly win. At the end of the year, they all look beautiful.

Alice Childress

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Amy Sedaris

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

Amy Heckerling

Bitterness is so ugly.

Al Groh

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

Rita Mae Brown

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

Susan Sontag

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Heath Bell

Throw some paint on that. You won't see a thing.

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.