Bertrand Russell Quotes

In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.

Bertrand Russell

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I waited for my first kiss.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • First
  • Kiss
  • First Kiss

• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Success

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animal
  • Environmental
  • Meat

• Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We can conceive of various kinds of democracy. But my intention is not to treat of every kind, but of that only, 'wherein all, without exception, who owe allegiance to the laws of the country only, and are further independent and of respectable life, have the right of voting in the supreme council and of filling the offices of the dominion.'

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Country
  • Democracy

• Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extraprocessit longe flammantia moenia mundiatque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.

  

  Lucretius

• Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Lying
  • Affection

• In art the Chinese aim at being exquisite, and in life at being reasonable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Art
  • Chinese