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.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

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.

Confucius

As long as I have rice to eat, and pure water to drink, I can find joy within.

Janet Smith

Raising our son was a joy ... Little League, scouts, everything.

Ed Asner

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Goldie Hawn

I wanted to investigate the nature of this joy.

Chinese Proverbs

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy

Anja Paerson

Now I feel the joy of winning again.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Roberto Benigni

Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody, the makers of the joy.

Carles Puyol

It was time for some joy. We had to suffer.

Sathya Baba

The Sun has no ego-sense or a sense of possession and property, and no will or want or wish.

Clint Hurdle

Some times the male ego gets in the way of a lot of things.

Rich Aurilia

I've played too long to let my ego get in the way, or my pride -- to say, 'I have to play shortstop' or something like that. You know what? I played 10 years at shortstop. Can I still play there? Yeah. But we have a good shortstop here.

James O'Shaughnessy

The model never varies. It never has an ego problem; it never has a fight with its spouse; it never wants to prove that it's right. The model is never hung-over after a night of partying -- it just does the same thing, time and time again. Very boring, very profitable.

Michael Harrison

You're in a dark, quiet room, there's nobody there, and you may not get your first ratings for a year. If you don't enjoy the process, you're not going to get the instant gratification. Radio is not fulfilling to an ego that needs instant excitement and a loud crowd.

Dan Barker

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Barry Gibb

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche