Herbert Spencer Quotes

No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

Herbert Spencer

• Ideas
• Eye
• Surprise
• Eyebrows
• Translations

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Like
  • Just
  • Watching

• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I love taking chances.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Love
  • Chances
  • Taking

• Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

  

  Randy Falco
  • You
  • More
  • Where

• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Most
  • India
  • Partners

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Kid

• High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I couldn't care less about business.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Business
  • Care
  • Less

• There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Things
  • Picture
  • Her

• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Pain

• You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past

• The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Character
  • Ideas

• It is amazing what colleagues tell you about the inefficiencies and about what works and what doesn't. It is a real-life check on our ideas.

  

  Judith McKenna
  • Ideas
  • Check
  • Efficiencies

• No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Ideas
  • Eye
  • Surprise