Rene Descartes Quotes
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.Rene Descartes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Aaron Siskind -
I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
Gary Ackerman -
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
Fidel Castro -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
Felix Dennis
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond -
I'd like to be curvier.
Cara Delevingne -
I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
Adam Lambert -
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon -
Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
Ion Tiriac -
I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
Sam Riley
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
Maira Kalman -
Militat omnis amans
Ovid -
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher -
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
Jimmy Piersall -
Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
Lauren Willig
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If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.
John Travolta -
The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
Phyllis Schlafly -
I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
John Patrick Shanley -
This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
James Turrell -
She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.
Laini Taylor -
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
Rene Descartes