Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

SaidEverythingBeenWhoDiscover

I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

Jessica Valenti

ParentingLiePeopleSocietyThink

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Max Hastings

ChildrenPeopleWorldBelieveKnow

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

Stephen Colletti

MeBabyMomFaceEmbarrassingVery

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

Trisha Yearwood

LoveFoodPotatoesFavoriteI Love

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

Tom Kenny

LifeRememberYouKindRealJust

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

YouPoliticianIdeaStatesmanLonger

Modern video games like 'Mass Effect' and 'Uncharted' cost tens of millions of dollars and require the labor of hundreds of people, who can each work 80- or even 100-hour weeks.

Jason Schreier

WorkPeopleVideo GamesLaborGames

Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks of life.

Jay Ellis

LifePeopleYouNewStorytellingUp

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

Connie Nielsen

LoveSeaLightWaterQualityAir

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

Peter Coyote

WomenChallengeMenI AmMeKnow

The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

Pete Gallego

ExpectationsMeetIronyStandards

Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

Pauline Neville-Jones

WorkThinkWrongArgumentSayIslam

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