Baron d'Holbach Quotes

We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.

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• When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Wanted
  • Short
  • Tall

• Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Important
  • Space
  • Computers

• It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Success

• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Powerful
  • Marriage
  • Tools

• If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Giving

• The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Red

• You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • She
  • Career

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Light
  • Red

• Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

  

  Olof Palme
  • Good
  • God

• Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Universe
  • Sky

• The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Red
  • Wine

• I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'

  

  Courtney Love
  • She
  • America
  • College

• When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Dance

• If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

  

  Sophocles
  • Age
  • Young
  • Deeds

• There aren't too many things that make you feel better than a little kid seeing you, yelling your name, and running to you.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • Running

• We're the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Guy
  • Professional

• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.

  

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