Philip James Bailey Quotes
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes to Explore
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
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The European Union is here to help. But we are not here in a mediating function.
Javier Solana
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A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.
Muhammad Ali
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
Muhammad Ali
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Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
Muhammad Ali
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Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.
Vladimir Putin
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather
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It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.
M. William Phelps
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If you have science and art,
You also have religion;
But if you don't have them,
You better have religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Elvis died the day he went into the army.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.
Elaine de Kooning
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It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
Seth Godin
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To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
Aristotle
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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
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
Philip James Bailey
