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
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  • Think
  • Mean

• 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
  • Good
  • Yourself
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• Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Blessed

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

  

  Emily Carr
  • May
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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
  • Why
  • Age
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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
  • Wall
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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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• People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Asking
  • Canvases

• I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

  

  Willie Geist
  • Believe
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• What people don't understand about making a film is sometimes your experience on the film shapes who you are. You're gone to another country for five months, maybe more, there's training leading up to it... It's a whole life experience that people don't see because they just see the final product wrapped up in a couple hours. You don't see everything that happens around it. I think it's hard to say one movie or one thing; I think they all shape who you are.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Old Age
  • Vitamins
  • Looks Like

• There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.

  

  Plato
  • Humanity
  • States
  • Philosophers

• 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