Paraphrased David Hume Quotes

#1. Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Noah Feldman

#2. I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tom Stoppard

#3. A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Aga Khan IV

#4. We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

Brene Brown

#5. What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Arthur Rimbaud

#6. Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Tom Hopkins

#7. Killing echoes inside you. It never goes away. Maybe some who have killed don't know that they've lost something, but they have.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#8. Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea.

Rumi

#9. Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions.

Steven Pinker

#10. What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

Woody Allen

#11. Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181

Gloria Steinem

#12. You won't kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We'll make your friend's death look as cute as puppies and kittens compared to yours. It's just too bad that you won't be able to witness it. Bummer." - Patrick Calveri

Tina Nelson

#13. Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Barbra Streisand

#14. The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

Mimi Rogers

#15. It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Antonia Fraser