Thomas Hobbes Quotes

From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

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• Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Men
  • Standards
  • Aggressive

• At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Media
  • Cringe

• If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Chance
  • Limits

• I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Feeling

• Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Business

• So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up

• I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

  

  Leslie Banks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • World

• Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Responsibility

• I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People

• Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • People
  • Great
  • Mistake

• I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Support
  • Nasty

• I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • World
  • Science
  • Technology

• I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

  

  Emmitt Smith
  • Heart
  • Career
  • Funny

• Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

  

  Bob Paisley
  • Player

• I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.

  

  Andrea Savage
  • Academic

• Be as radical as Reality.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Reality
  • Radical

• Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Chance
  • Audience
  • Shame

• I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Looks
  • States
  • United

• The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

  

  Danny Garcia
  • Like
  • Means
  • Supported

• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Advanced
  • Private Interest
  • Publique