Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
-
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
-
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
-
I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
-
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
-
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
-
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
-
I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
-
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
-
With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
-
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
-
When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
-
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
-
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
-
Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
-
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
-
When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
-
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
-
There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
-
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
-
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.
-
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
