Herbert Spencer Quotes
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.Herbert Spencer
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
Rand Paul -
I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln -
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garrett Dillahunt -
I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
Irina Shayk
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle -
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten -
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus -
When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
Patrick Kane -
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
Lady Gaga
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen -
Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
Ramana Maharshi -
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Camille Paglia -
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
Tad Williams -
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
I. F. Stone
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The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
Dennis L. McKiernan -
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
Yayoi Kusama -
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
N. Scott Momaday -
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
Aldous Huxley -
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
Phyllis Schlafly -
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Herbert Spencer