Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Garth Brooks

When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free.

Elias Canetti

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Richard Berthelsen

We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Michael Messner

She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bob Demesy

We have raced all over, and there's nothing worse for spectators than standing around waiting for the races. We keep them going.

Tim Crouch

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Jerome Bettis

I was a spectator out there, ... I can't give you much more than that.

Joe Beasley

The only thing I can say is that spectators need to stay off the field,

John Jones

We get participants and spectators from all over the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Tim Cole

This is a place where we talk with each other on Sunday mornings. We are not just spectators and performers.

Jason Spezza

Dany was Dany tonight. He was flying. He had the one-timer going. I was just a spectator tonight.

Marcel Duchamp

It is the spectators who make the pictures.