David Hume Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
Quotes to Explore
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
Mahesh Babu
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
Adam Lambert
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
Madhuri Dixit
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That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
George Boole
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown
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For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Alison Gopnik
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
Rita Mae Brown
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
