Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Thomas Hobbes

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• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• Women love a self-confident bald man.

  

  Larry David
  • Women
  • Love
  • Man

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Scary
  • Because
  • Rehearsing

• I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Movie

• If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.

  

  Ngaio Marsh

• When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Control

• I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Superhero

• If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Life
  • High
  • Career

• You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Young

• The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Important
  • Play
  • Actor

• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  

  Lisa See
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Gratitude

• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Country
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Party

• Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Party
  • Study
  • Library

• This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Soldier

• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Lifetime
  • Seeker

• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Life
  • Die
  • Universe

• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  

  Sophocles
  • Live
  • Proud
  • Nobly

• At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Writing
  • Night

• The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Ghost
  • Roman Empire
  • Deceased