David Hume Quotes

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

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• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Aesthetic

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Become
  • Strive
  • Obscure

• With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • State
  • WIld
  • Experimentation

• If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

  

  Dan Webster
  • May
  • Want
  • Door

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Nice
  • Party

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Life
  • She
  • Door

• Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Great
  • Hope

• 'That could be solved,' Siri said, 'Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Help
  • Present

• I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

  

  Jonathan Brandis
  • Advice

• It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

  

  David Hume
  • Life