Hypothetical Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seventy-five percent of women think they are too fat, despite being in what is considered to be a healthy weight range. — Rachel Oakes-Ash

people not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and Wattenmaker 1987, 36). — Anonymous

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. — Sam Waterston

Human love is to devote a part of ourselves to the providence of another existence. To be without this devotion is to be void of love. — Michael Hollingworth

Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed. — Mary Kissel

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood. — Anthony Browne

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He — Henning Mankell

I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator. — Donnie Yen

It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others. — Frederick Lenz

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it. — Grant-Lee Phillips

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? — Bill Watterson

What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men's eyes turned toward her, that moment when he offered her to the world. What he loved in her was his power and his ambition to live. Even his desire, the deepest craving of his flesh, probably derived from this initial astonishment at possessing a lovely body, at mastering and humiliating it. — Albert Camus

I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time - almost all of it - with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form. — Matt Haig