Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.Baruch Spinoza
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
Narendra Modi -
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey -
Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
Nadine Velazquez -
At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
Cara Delevingne -
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
Karen Armstrong -
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
Kate Mosse -
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White -
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Kuang -
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
Oliver North -
Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
Karen Finerman
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
Vanity -
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo -
I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Galveston Giant -
I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
Eddie Trunk -
I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.
Fleur East
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
Carlton Cuse -
Phone calls, that is actually interrupting someone’s life to have them talk on the phone, should be eresrved for emergencies only.
Casey Neistat -
He hasn't thrown me a pick yet, but hopefully I can get one because I know he loves to give them out. When you watch any other game they play it seems like he's just throwing them up there for grabs. Hopefully, he'll do that this week.
Ken Lucas -
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
Barbara Kopple -
I try to put a positive spin on things.
Krysten Ritter -
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
Baruch Spinoza