John Stuart Mill Quotes

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

  

  Young Buck
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • My Life

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
  • City
  • Blessed
  • Holy

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Color

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Mind
  • Character

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

  

  Max Hastings
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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