David Hume Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

David Hume

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• I'm like a sight gag.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Sight
  • Gag

• The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Soldiers
  • Rebellion

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Order
  • Everyone
  • Capitalism

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Nature

• Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Stupid
  • Him

• There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Racism

• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Dark
  • Wonder

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Today

• He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Simple

• I’ll project myself into several futures simultaneously, a minor tremor in my hand; I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Sincerity
  • Irony
  • Tremor

• Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don't really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a 'preexisting condition.'

  

  Paul Zane Pilzer
  • Health
  • Insurance

• The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • Water

• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  

  David Hume