David Hume Quotes
The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.David Hume
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus -
I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
Zach Roerig -
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
Rafael Vinoly -
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour -
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Felix Adler -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Sam Neill -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves -
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet -
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Nate Parker
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not to get caught.
Kathleen Robertson -
I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.
Dmitri Mendeleev -
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan -
That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general discourse is the same … In all matters of opinion and science, the case is opposite: The difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance.
David Hume