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

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• 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

• I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

  

  Rick Boucher
  • People
  • Defend
  • Undertaken

• The script is the bible. If you imagine setting off on an adventure in a canoe, the script is the strong arms that shove you out into the stream. It is the map of where you are going.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Strong
  • Bible
  • Imagine

• When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • School
  • Book
  • Kids

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Up
  • Real
  • Business

• Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Adventure