David Hume Quotes

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

David Hume

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• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Person
  • Face
  • Greatest

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • True
  • Society

• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • War
  • Tax

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Running

• All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Day
  • Weapons
  • One Day

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Happy
  • Tired
  • Negativity

• I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • People
  • Great
  • Attention

• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophers
  • Sale
  • Pressed

• I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Believe
  • Memories
  • Painful

• The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • People
  • Country
  • Food

• Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

  

  David Hume