Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum

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• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Different
  • You
  • Always

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Sunshine

• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • May
  • Election
  • Promises

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Curious

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.

  

  K. Flay
  • Like
  • Name
  • Driven

• My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Power
  • Peaceful

• I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • You
  • Understand
  • Tolerance

• You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Stage

• Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People
  • Attention
  • Insecurity

• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Persons
  • Imagine

• Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Stories

• I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • School

• Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum

  

  Baruch Spinoza