Herbert Spencer Quotes

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Preparation

• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Strange
  • Going
  • Lie

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Confidence
  • Worry
  • Loss

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Freedom

• I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Literature
  • Luck
  • Loved

• I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Believe
  • Design
  • Goal

• My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mom

• The voice of one who goes before, to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May!

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Beautiful
  • Voice
  • Sweet May

• I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Knowledge
  • Marriage
  • Beginning

• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Light
  • Happiness
  • Loves

• Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure