Richard Rorty Quotes

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

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• When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Successful
  • Pressure
  • Become

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Home
  • America
  • Best

• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animals
  • Cousins
  • Zoo

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
  • Field

• I always have stress.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Always
  • Stress

• It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Home

• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Time
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Future
  • Events
  • Written

• Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.

  

  Bruno Walter
  • World
  • Art
  • Forever

• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Order
  • Psychology
  • Produce

• The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.

  

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
  • Country
  • War
  • Government

• It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Crisis
  • Disaster
  • Midlife

• It's hard for me to approach a film as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

  

  Alex Prager
  • Film
  • Make
  • Minutes

• Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

  

  Alessandro Manzoni
  • Heart
  • Listen
  • Happened

• I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think.

  

  Morag Joss
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Canvas

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Done
  • Bad

• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Everybody
  • Compliment
  • Likes

• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Eye

• Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • Sentences
  • Compliment
  • Simply