David Hume Quotes

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

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• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Race
  • Neither
  • Inferior

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Money
  • Today
  • Movies

• I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Know
  • Plans
  • Mr

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Want
  • Better
  • Acting

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Band

• There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• God knows, we don't want prayer.

  

  Oliver North
  • God
  • Want
  • Prayer

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Future
  • Party
  • Vision

• We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  

  W. A. Criswell
  • Life
  • Human
  • Souls

• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  

  David Hume
  • Christian
  • Philosophical