John Locke Quotes
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
Quotes to Explore
-
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
-
Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
-
The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
-
When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
-
Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
-
If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
-
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
-
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
-
We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
-
I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
-
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
-
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
-
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
-
I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
-
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
-
I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
-
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
-
The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
-
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
-
You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there's a difference in promoting it? Apparently not.
-
You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable. I think Christine is lovable, but I don't think she's likable. I think there's a fundamental difference. For me, those are the richest ones. Men have had a career of doing those kind of things.
-
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
-
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
-
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
