Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ayn Rand

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Adolf Hitler

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.

Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Benjamin Cardozo

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Charles Kettering

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.