Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rockefeller

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

David Hume

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

David Hume

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

August Strindberg

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Arnold Bennett

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Deborah Eisenberg

time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.

Alain de Botton

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

David Hume

When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.

David Hume

There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto just order and proportion. Let speculative reasoners dispute, how far this beneficent being extends his care, and whether he prolongs our existence beyond the grave, in order to bestow on virtue its just reward, and render it fully triumphant.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly.

Dennis Kucinich

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Miller

When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

How do we know for sure that no two snowflakes are the same - we haven't got anybody watching.

Dennis Miller

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

Alain de Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

David Dreman

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

Benicio Del Toro

I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.

Baroness Orczy

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

Arthur Rimbaud

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Don't judge me because I sin differently from you.

Dick Durbin

The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.

Al Franken

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.