Josiah Royce Quotes
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.Josiah Royce
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
L'Wren Scott -
I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
Maggie Lawson -
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Dan Quayle -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar -
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
Eddie Murray
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
D. H. Lawrence -
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q -
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden -
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
Danica Patrick -
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
Oscar Wilde -
Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
Eminem
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Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
Aulus Gellius -
One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.
Leo Tolstoy -
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.
Charles Dickens -
Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
Alberto Manguel -
'Tom Sawyer' could have been written eight months ago, with the kind of response it still gets.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
Linda Tripp
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People's intolerance, I find puzzling.
Jane Goldman -
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
Karin Slaughter -
Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.
Bob Teague -
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson -
Philosophy always buries its undertakers.
Etienne Gilson -
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
Josiah Royce