Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

David Hume

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

David Hume

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Dreman

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

David Duke

The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism - they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria, and a danger for Iran at this point.

David Duke

The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of my documents about Jewish Supremacism are from Jewish sources. They argue more convincingly for my point of view than anything I could write. I encourage you to go to the sources that I quote and check them out for yourself. In this book I take you along with me on a fascinating journey of discovery in a forbidden subject. I urge you to courageously keep an open mind while you explore the topics ahead, for that is the only way any of us can find the truth.

David Duke

Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost immune from criticism. Whether the Holocaust is real or not, the Jews clearly have a motive for fostering the idea that it occurred. Not only do they have a motive, but they have the means with the media domination they now hold.

David Duchovny

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

David Duchovny

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

David Brin

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

David Brin

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

David Brin

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

David Brooks

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

Ben Stiller

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

Beatrice Wood

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Beatrix Potter

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Beau Bridges

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Bear Grylls

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Barry Diller

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Barry Diller

Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

Barney Frank

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

Audrey Meadows

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

Audrey Tautou

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.