Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

David Hume

From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

David Beckham

Wayne can play any position but the way he plays for Manchester United, just off the main striker, is unstoppable. He runs at players and that is what causes teams most problems.

Denzel Washington

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Blaise Pascal

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Bill James

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Bill Hicks

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

David Ricardo

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Hume

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.

David Brooks

I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

Audrey Hepburn

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audre Lorde

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Arthur Ransome

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Arthur Peacocke

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Charles Kennedy

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Rep. Taylor

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

Agnes Martin

Anything can be painted without representation.

Josh Greenbaum

But (the acquisitions) represent a strong maintenance revenue stream.

Rob Clarke

If anything were to take place then Daryl Mather can represent the client.

Mariano Rivera

I wish the time would have been different; when we didn't have to worry about Spring Training and could have been throwing already. It is what it is. It's too bad, because you always want to represent your country. I just wouldn't be ready.

Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Lupe Ontiveros

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Greg Biffle

So I'm saying we're not out of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Denise Martin

True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

David Viscott

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

David Viscott

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

David Heyman

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

David Heyman

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Hyde Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

David Douglas

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

David Duchovny

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Brooks

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"