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.

Benjamin Cardozo

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Brian Tracy

We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

Brenda Ueland

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Brad Pitt

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

Boyd Rice

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Cardinal Richelieu

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Daniel Handler

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Boris Johnson

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

Aristotle

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

Albert Einstein

We are here for the sake of others

Robert Frost

All great things are done for their own sake.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Sri Aurobindo

There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.

Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.