Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Avlon

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

David Nicholls

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Andrew Jackson

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Tom Selleck

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

Tom Green

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.

Tom Green

It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

Tim Ferriss

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

Vin Diesel

I've directed independent film.

Victor Papanek

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Bob Harper

Is it easy? No! ... It has to be a conscious decision.

Ehud Barak

The whole significance of the compromise, all the pain that it comprises, is the conscious stand before reality, even if it never fits the dream,

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are very conscious of the impatience of the international community,

Thomas Beecham

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Michael Jordan

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

William Bowen

I feel that there are a lot of people that come from integrated places, but the majority of them come from segregated places. It's not a conscious effort. It's just the way it is.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.