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

• 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

• 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

• I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.

  

  Dylan Baker

• What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • True
  • For Her

• I love kids. I wanted more. I have two, but I would've had six or seven... I would have done that if I could.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • Done
  • Kids

• We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Things
  • Civilization
  • Kind way

• A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

  

  Bassam Tibi
  • Constitution
  • Conflict
  • Orthodoxy

• Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Loved

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

  

  Baron d'Holbach