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

• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Sometimes
  • Greed
  • Hatred

• 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

• There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Important
  • Play
  • Fall

• 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

• In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • May
  • Day

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• 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 find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • People

• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.

  

  Nestor Carbonell
  • Lost
  • Amazing

• Childhood

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Childhood

• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  

  William James
  • Soul
  • Science
  • Simple

• I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.

  

  Michael Riedel
  • Growing
  • Justice
  • Lawyer

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

  

  David Hume