Thomas Hobbes Quotes

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

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• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Law
  • Deep

• If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • End
  • Hands
  • Him

• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Thankful
  • Blame

• The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Business
  • Amazing

• Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Power
  • Hope

• Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Done
  • Kids
  • College

• Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'

  

  Anna Held
  • Good
  • Live
  • Alone

• I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Up

• My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Experience
  • Dance
  • Moon

• If Republicans and Democrats commit to working together, we can reach a bipartisan, common-sense agreement to reverse Illinois' economic decline and set the stage for a bright economic future.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Together
  • Future

• I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Art

• Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • She

• It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • History

• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  

  Bryan White
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Conviction

• It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

  

  Eric Bachmann
  • Write
  • Rewarding
  • Good Song

• Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Matter
  • Difficult

• To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Monarch
  • Orators
  • Seduced