Rene Descartes Quotes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Rene Descartes

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• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Real
  • Done
  • Fun

• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Political
  • Finance
  • Bank

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Girl
  • Learning
  • Guitar

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• 'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Government
  • Following
  • Even

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  

  Kanye West
  • Writing
  • History
  • Busy

• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thought
  • Library
  • Might

• Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Character
  • Speak
  • Page

• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Live
  • Money
  • Science

• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Song

• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • American
  • Past
  • German

• If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  

  Marcus Brigstocke
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Running

• A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.

  

  Leon Trotsky

• UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Time

• In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Men
  • Journey
  • Distance

• I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Sick

• We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Feeling
  • Painful

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Judge
  • Discovery
  • I Hope