Rene Descartes Quotes

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

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• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Important
  • Change
  • Walk

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Children
  • Why

• The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Dream

• To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

  

  Hannah More
  • Words

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • House
  • Friend
  • Hand

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Die

• I try to place beautiful imagery next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

  

  Dario Argento
  • She
  • Beginning
  • Daughter

• I think that was very good for both of us, ... I think Kenny got to see how people reacted to us, and also he could hear, as could I, a sound that we hadn't heard in 30 years.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Could

• The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Dream

• Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

  

  James Franco
  • Real

• Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • History
  • Together

• Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Discovered