David Hume Quotes

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume

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• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Gay
  • Looking
  • Street

• I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

  

  Zendaya
  • World
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Kids
  • American
  • Fantasy

• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Important
  • Love
  • Happiness

• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Laugh
  • Train

• Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Partner
  • Quiet

• I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.

  

  Larry Wall

• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Men
  • Hope

• The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World

• 378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Knowledge

• Inanity is pretending that Afghanistan will go away if we leave.

  

  Christopher Hitchens

• I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.

  

  Betty White

• I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Alone
  • Value

• I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

  

  Cherie Lunghi

• I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Worry

• The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Think
  • Hated
  • Truth Is

• I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Luck

• I watch what I eat, and I train properly.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Separated
  • Siddhartha

• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  

  David Hume