David Hume Quotes

The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.

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• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Black
  • Green
  • Black-and-white

• I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Good
  • Best
  • Careers

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Gold

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Me
  • Like
  • Going

• The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Out

• An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Lies
  • Facts

• Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Movies

• I believe that change keeps you young.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Change
  • I Believe

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Free
  • Right
  • Dissent

• I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Why
  • Question
  • Feel

• This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Believe

• The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Question
  • Issues
  • Privacy

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Magic
  • Basketball

• Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

  

  Derek Blasberg
  • Makeup
  • Paris

• The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.

  

  David Hume