Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

Baha'u'llah

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

C. S. Lewis

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

bell hooks

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

Bob Dylan

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Billy Crystal

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Blaise Pascal

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Dawn Davis

A win is a win. We are struggling right now; our worst enemy is ourselves.

Sarah West

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Carl von Clausewitz

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Al Goldstein

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Charles Kettering

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Jane Addams

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Bruce Babbitt

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Eckhart Tolle

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.