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

• Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Father
  • Eyes
  • Car

• 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

• Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Soul
  • Romantic

• My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Long
  • Real
  • Parents

• If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

  

  Jef Raskin

• One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

  

  Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • Better
  • Read
  • Ponder

• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  

  David Hume