"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Men Quotes #Weight Loss Quotes #Worry Quotes

“A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?”
“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
“If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.”
“I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.”

Source : "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.
“The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.”

Source : "A World Without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy". Book by George Roche III, 1987.
“Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor”

Source : "A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America" by Alexander Harris, (p. 430), 1876.
“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.”

Source : Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.
“From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific

You may also like:

Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematician
David Hume
Philosopher
G. H. Hardy
Mathematician
Gottlob Frege
Mathematician
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Russell Crowe
Actor