Rene Descartes Quotes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Rene Descartes

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• You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Important
  • Trees
  • Ecosystem

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Guy
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• Intentions count in your actions.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Actions
  • Count
  • Intentions

• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Me
  • Solutions
  • Sentences

• I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Never

• Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Blessed

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Done
  • Promise

• Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear

• You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Sea
  • Touch
  • Losses

• When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Singing

• I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

  

  Bill Forsyth
  • Joy

• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Eyes
  • Dreaming
  • Demons

• Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Illusory