David Hume Quotes
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.David Hume
Quotes to Explore
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
You either make dust or eat dust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel -
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx -
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden -
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
Yuna -
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann -
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Malcolm Bradbury -
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
Ice T -
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg
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You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
Barack Obama -
the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.
Lady Caroline Lamb -
I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.
Namie Amuro -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
My first Asian role model was Michelle Kwan. Her beauty comes from within. She's also really beautiful on the outside. But when I first saw her ice-skate, her performance was so moving and beautiful that she just glowed.
Constance Wu -
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
David Hume