Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

Democritus

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

Denis Diderot

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations...He does not confuse truth with plausibility...he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable...The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

it is harder to be philosophical when you are young.

Edward Zwick

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

Jonathan Ive

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Ludwig von Mises

Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

Aberjhani

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Edmund Burke

Turn over a new leaf.

James Boswell

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

Keith Waterhouse

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Miguel de Cervantes

I'll turn over a new leaf.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Anthony Nelson

First half, it was back and forth. They are a tough team, but we stuck in there.

Dave Eggers

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.