Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

Gustave Courbet

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

Stuart Scott

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Tim Curry

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

John Petit-Senn

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Charles Schumer

We need to examine what went wrong. If it was one mistake, fine, but it's mistake after mistake after mistake,

Valerie Wunder

We need to examine the options that would make the move viable for us.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Joe Paterno

He's gonna go back with us. The doc wants to get an MRI on him, but he's got some ligament problems. They want to examine him more.

Mark Land

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Ken Holland

He has some damage. He's going to be examined Friday and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Ken Holland

He has some ACL and MCL damage, ... He's going to be examined Friday, and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

John Sherman Cooper

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

Kary Mullis

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

David Platt

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Charlotte Bronte

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

Jack Canfield

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Michel de Montaigne

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Mike Anderson

Obviously. I have to turn it up a notch.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ralph Soffredine

I can't see why you could ever turn this down.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Michael Fincke

I got to see some video of my daughter. She can turn over now, she's getting really big without me.