John Stuart Mill Quotes
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
John Stuart Mill
Quotes to Explore
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Gail Collins
I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
Cameron Mathison
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
Nathaniel Rateliff
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
Kate Winslet
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
Brian Wilson
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
Daniel Berrigan
In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
Buzz Aldrin
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
Alan Alda
As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.
Solon
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
Seth Godin