Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.Thomas Hobbes
Quotes to Explore
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
Hanna Rosin -
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
Adam McKay -
Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Natalie Dormer -
I dig all kinds of competition.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
J. D. Vance -
It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne Dyer
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
Malcolm X -
I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
Randy Houser -
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa -
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin -
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
Kai Bird -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
Victoria Justice -
As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
Nate Powell -
I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
Harold Ramis -
My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
Taylor Wilson -
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
Babasaheb -
I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
William Hazlitt -
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
Adam Grant -
Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
Stephen Sondheim -
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal -
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
Thomas Hobbes