Bertrand Russell Quotes

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

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• I'm a strong woman.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Think
  • Like
  • Write

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gay

• No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

  

  Kate Middleton
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  • Parent
  • Doctor

• Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Real
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  • Sometimes

• Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Freedom
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Home
  • Ride
  • Nonsense

• I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Technology
  • Understand
  • Very

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Care
  • Responsible

• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
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• You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • You
  • Training
  • Fitness

• Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Say
  • Immigration
  • Saying

• I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

  

  Beck
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  • Kind
  • Wall

• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • You
  • Day
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• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Pain

• School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

  

  Verite
  • Mind
  • School
  • Kind

• Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side!

  

  John Cotton Dana
  • Men
  • Real
  • Money

• It's really cool to see how many awesome, badass ladies are out there now just doing their thing and putting their foot down, saying, "Nope. You're not going to tell me I'm doing something women shouldn't be doing." It's a scary time but also I think a really important time. I'm happy to see how much girls are responding to a lot of the other powerful big boys swimming out there right now.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Time
  • Ladies
  • Foot

• Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Great
  • Friends
  • True

• The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

  

  Michael Cudlitz
  • Lying
  • Happens

• Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

  

  Martin Niemoller

• The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

  

  Bertrand Russell