Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

Thomas Hobbes

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• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
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• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

  

  Emily Carr
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• The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin

• I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
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• I am mentally bifocal.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

• Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
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• The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
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• The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.

  

  Franz Kafka

• I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Today

• How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Writing
  • Printing

• Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Moments
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• Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they're doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes "you want a falcon?".

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• And I wanted to do a movie Moonrise Kingdom about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Feelings

• I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Unique

• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  

  Confucius
  • Long
  • Stop
  • No Matter

• ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Victory

• Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Philosophers
  • Heresy
  • Private Opinion