Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Susan B. Anthony

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Jane Addams

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Brian Tracy

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Rick Parry

We've been 30 points adrift of the champions for the last two seasons, and although there are still three games to play, it's clear for everyone we're a lot closer now.

Colin Firth

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Roy Coyle

This time last year we were a lot of points adrift and now we are only behind on goal difference. So it is a nice position to be in. We would have preferred to be top but finishing let us down.

Bat for Lashes

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

Jeff Carlson

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Greg Smith

The crew have been transferred to the police launch Fearless and the yacht has been left adrift and the emergency beacon will continue to flash until it's picked up by whoever.

Warren Brown

These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.

Bill Bailey

There's a wonderful sadness and poignancy about those Finnish films. They have people adrift at the mercy of fate. They're heartwarming. I also find them funny. I suppose that makes me an optimist.

Paul Light

It's a rare moment when you get a housecleaning like this. It could presage a strong turnaround for an agency that's been adrift for years if not decades.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.