Thomas Nagel Quotes

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • School
  • Fun
  • See

• These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.

  

  Jack London
  • Women
  • Live

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Up
  • Road
  • Weird

• Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• It is a wonderful but daunting task that has fallen on me to say few words by way of opening this Forum, the greatest concourse of women (joined by a few brave men!) that has ever gathered on our planet. I want to try and voice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Words

• It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • True

• Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Childhood

• If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Good

• Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

  

  Bjork
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • God
  • Daily
  • Discipline

• In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Fashion

• I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Night
  • Way
  • Wife

• As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Balance

• Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

  

  Austin O'Malley
  • Friendship

• Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Accounts
  • Tendencies