Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

Bertrand Russell

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Bertrand Russell

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

Bertrand Russell

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Bertrand Russell

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Bertrand Russell

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Charles R. Swindoll

So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

That's the tough thing about winning 18 in a row. They're down there, thinking it's the end of the world. They wanted to see how long this thing could keep going.

Ron Wilson

That's the positive, we're not going in thinking it's automatic. We're going to have to work for those wins.

I was out of it. I was just insanely mad. I wasn't even thinking about consolations. I thought I would be in the finals. I had to be. I didn't want anything else.

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

Eric Johnson

I was thinking we were going to overtime.

Craig Smith

I was thinking we had won a hard-fought battle, and I was going to celebrate.

I was thinking I was a real idiot. But I trust him and he's such a winner.

I was thinking it was the same kind of ball.

I was thinking at the time how wonderful that is.

I was thinking about it the whole game.

Natalie Gulbis

I was thinking about it most of the day,

Bubba Watson

I was thinking about it all day. I got out of trouble really well all week. It's one of those things that was probably lucky. For a long hitter, you don't think that's possible.

It been very light. I don't know if everyone is waiting, thinking there is a rush.

Luke Ridnour

I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1.

Dean Jones

He's just got to get back to thinking he's at the MCG of old, wearing a Victorian cap, and no-one's at the ground, and just play.

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

I don't think we'll be doing much of anything. They'll probably be sleeping. I'll be thinking about my family.

If we started thinking like that, we wouldn't have won the game.

When they say more than half, we're thinking most.

Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

William Wilberforce

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

AJ Michalka

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

Allan Carr

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

Allan Carr

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

Carl Jung

After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have grown used to it by now. But nope. Not even close. Though I could get used to it. I'd like to get used to it.