Herbert Spencer Quotes

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Herbert Spencer

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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • Men
  • Start

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!Her equal would be hard to find.She lost one dad and mother,A sister and a brother-But she would make up her mind.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

  

  Dominic West
  • She
  • Wife

• I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Song
  • Night
  • Hate

• I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

  

  Lila Acheson Wallace

• We all have done something unethical.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Done

• Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

  

  Holly Hunter

• Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Moments
  • Feels
  • Degrees

• As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Career
  • Parents

• Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Pleasure
  • Incentive

• Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

  

  Willie Smits
  • Baby
  • Humans
  • Helpless

• Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Raises