Various Quotes · Page 14

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters,…

— Morris West

My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.

— Max Minghella

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

— Marilyn Manson

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

— Lara Jean Chorostecki

I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

— Rebecca De Mornay

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

— Samuel Beckett

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

— Al Madrigal

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival…

— E. O. Wilson

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to…

— Harry Crosby

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential…

— Mary Jo Weaver

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression…

— Matthew Quick

I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the…

— Anonymous

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the…

— James Wolfensohn

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector…

— Ray Kurzweil

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:…

— Che Guevara

When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was…

— Scott Adkins

Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there…

— Benjamin De Casseres

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not…

— Mona Baker

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind…

— Amadeo Bordiga

I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily…

— Charles Lloyd

If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or…

— Kajol

Art can be interpreted in various ways and having the freedom to do that is liberating as a creator and a viewer.

— Asim Chaudhry

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

— Karl Marx

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

— Roger Scruton

Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points.

— Ravichandran Ashwin

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you…

— George Santayana

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

— John Milton

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

— Bruce Sterling

The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements.

— MNEK

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

— Rob Lowe

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

— Anonymous

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

— George Eliot

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a…

— Edith Wharton

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

— Mike Pence

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

— Jerry Garcia

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

— Gerard Arpey

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself…

— Phyllis Bentley