John Stuart Mill Quotes
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
Olivia Colman
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
J. Christopher Burch
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
Randall L. Stephenson
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
Lata Mangeshkar
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
Rachel Platten
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
Sam Underwood
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
Madeleine Stowe
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi
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People don't usually compliment your character.
Taylor Swift
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom
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I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.
Pilou Asbaek
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
Bertrand Russell
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
Valerie Trierweiler
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To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
Charlotte Bronte
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
John Stuart Mill