Famous Quotes & Sayings

Viggo Mortensen

It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

Viggo Mortensen

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Victoria Moran

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Hal Sparks

Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

Gordon Bell

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

Gordon Brown

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Gordon Brown

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Herbie Hancock

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

Herbie Hancock

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices.

Herbie Hancock

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

Herman Cain

Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem

Herbert Spencer

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Herbert Spencer

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herman Melville

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

Herman Melville

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Herman Melville

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

Henry David Thoreau

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Henry David Thoreau

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

H. L. Mencken

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought..

Jean Genet

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

Jean Genet

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

Jessica Livingston

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Jessica Ennis

My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Lange

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jeremy Grantham

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value

Jeremy Bentham

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Jeremy Clarkson

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.