Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

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• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

  

  Adam Green
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Truth Is

• Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Mind
  • Marriage
  • Adulthood

• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Story
  • Courtesy

• I climb mountains.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Mountains
  • Climb

• I don't want to be a pretty boy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Boy

• The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Thought

• For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Saying

• The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Kids
  • Service
  • Difference

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Good
  • Long
  • Food

• Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Black
  • Running
  • Gay

• We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Together
  • Dangerous
  • Economic

• Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Adventure