Bertrand Russell Quotes
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.Bertrand Russell
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
Orison Swett Marden -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Patrick Henry -
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Fannie Flagg -
If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
Samantha Bond
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
Garik Israelian -
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
Harrison Ford -
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
Ursula Burns -
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber -
I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
Pat Quinn -
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
R. L. Stine -
If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
Barbara Hale -
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria -
Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
Haley Bennett
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
Lamar Hunt -
It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
Caprice Bourret -
Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.
Mark Zupan -
If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.
Chilon of Sparta -
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
Bertrand Russell