Baruch Spinoza Quotes

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Great
  • God
  • Family

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Thought

• As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Fall
  • Language

• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Literature

• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Good
  • May

• People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • People
  • Equipment
  • Quicker

• Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • World
  • Power
  • Running

• What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Real
  • Power
  • Together

• The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Greater