Mettrie Quotes

#1. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#2. Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

Elizabeth Taylor

#3. A fruitless endeavor, as my knowledge was definitely the fruity type.

Darynda Jones

#4. Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#5. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#6. If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Arthur Miller

#7. Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!

James Agee

#8. Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

Jose Mujica

#9. There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#10. Love conquers everything even karma.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#11. U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

Henry A. Kissinger

#12. The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

Ed Begley Jr.

#13. The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#14. I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

Cameron Diaz

#15. It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#16. Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#17. All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga - Samadhi.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#19. I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

Cindy Crawford

#20. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#21. Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

Billy Rose

#22. When I'm playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn't care what my name is or where I come from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist.

Nora Sakavic

#23. We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

Dan Hawkins

#24. The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#25. One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

Johnny Reid

#26. The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie