Bertrand Russell Quotes

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • World
  • Day
  • Better

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Ignorant

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.

  

  Glen Campbell

• When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Teach
  • Iron
  • Ceilings

• Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

  

  John Donne
  • Book

• I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

  

  Patton Oswalt

• For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Power
  • Desires
  • Choise

• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power