Herbert Spencer Quotes

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

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• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • School
  • Bad

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Today

• The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Black

• 'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Past
  • Question
  • Present

• There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.

  

  Edward Young
  • Poetry

• I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Hope

• A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Done

• Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Health
  • Insurance

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins

• They said I won by a landslide, which blew me away.

  

  Kevin Talley Chimaira
  • Blew
  • Landslide

• The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Men
  • Death
  • Theory

• Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Feelings

• Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Differences
  • Equity