Priviate Investigator Quotes

#1. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.

John Stuart Mill

#2. Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.

Elton Trueblood

#3. The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states).

Andrew Napolitano

#4. "One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams."
Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer

Vannessa Anderson

#5. To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. You had decided upon your course of action already. But that did not stop you from having a discussion, allowing us to be a part of the decision. Somehow, you guided us all into saying what you wanted to hear. And yet, you made each one of us feel as if it was our own decision. That is leadership.

Amish Tripathi

#7. I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

Natalie Portman

#8. All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Florence Welch

#10. It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.

Brad Katsuyama

#11. My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

Bruce Vilanch

#12. Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1

Charles R. Swindoll

#13. [h]ope, like a desert aloe. Hope, stubborn and bitter to the taste. That hides water. That bears the drought. An ugly plant with the power to heal.

Sofia Samatar

#14. The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

Hany Abu-Assad

#15. You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.