Hobbesian Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. — Paulo Coelho

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come — Mario Puzo

They no longer panicked when they heard skittering noises in the wall or under the bed. If the noises where in the bed, they allowed themselves some panic. This had happened more than once. — Cassandra Clare

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house ...
- Shigure Sohma — Natsuki Takaya

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter. — David Neeleman

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward

It says he's rich. It also says he's a scion. What the heck is a scion? Sounds like some kind of refrigerator or a car. — Jayne Castle

Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof. — Vladimir Putin

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked. — Debbie Stabenow

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear. — Shannon Miller

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you. — Princess Diana

Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink; the mere thought was painful. — V.S. Naipaul

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat. — Whoopi Goldberg

Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives. — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi