Karl Pearson Quotes

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Karl Pearson

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• Reason
• Order
• Benevolence

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

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

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Single
  • Sex
  • Kiss

• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Beautiful

• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  

  Jeff Gannon
  • Believe
  • House

• It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Wine

• I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Order