Cartesian Rationalism Quotes

#1. 'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.

Rutger Hauer

#2. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#3. The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

Emma Hooper

#4. Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

Don Murray

#5. We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Roald Amundsen

#6. I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

James Taylor

#7. It is an interesting experience to become acquainted with a country through the eyes of the insane, and, if I may say so, a particularly useful grounding for life in Britain.

Bill Bryson

#8. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children

L. Frank Baum

#9. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. Everything that is possible demands to exist.

Gottfried Leibniz

#11. It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.

Alan Lightman

#12. Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Marianne Moore