Arthur Helps Quotes

Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

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• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Forget
  • Easy
  • Noise

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Complains
  • Feeble

• It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Time
  • World
  • Strange

• Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mood

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I promise you, the gym has taken away so much of my stress. It has helped calm me down.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Taken
  • Promise
  • Stress

• And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  

  Norton Juster
  • World
  • Whole

• I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Doing

• I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Trying

• Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Knowledge