Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dora Russell

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Don Shula

My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

Don Henley

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

Don Henley

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Don Marquis

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

Dwayne Johnson

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward which is if I see something that I like and I can see its value to the audience, its value to me, then I'm going to take my shot at it, regardless of the genre.

Colin Wilson

Phenomenology is not a philosophy ; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

Claudia Cardinale

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

Dalai Lama

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

Dalai Lama

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

Dolly Parton

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Dolly Parton

Paradise is a state of mind.

Dolly Parton

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Dino De Laurentiis

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Diogenes

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Diogenes

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice .

David Maraniss

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

David Mamet

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Clarence Thomas

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Colin Farrell

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Dan Quayle

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

Dan Gable

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

Dan Fogelberg

Are you under the power of gold?

Dan Fogelberg

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

Compay Segundo

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Daphne Guinness

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Corliss Lamont

To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

Corliss Lamont

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

Corliss Lamont

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

Cornel West

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Cornel West

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Cornel West

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.