Albert J. Nock Quotes

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Albert J. Nock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 13, 1870 - August 19, 1945

Topics

LifeFailureParentsPoorNeverSaw

I have to play the hand that was dealt me.

Jesse White

MePlayHandDealt

The business has been good to me.

Sissy Spacek

GoodBusinessMeBeen

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.

Rob Lowe

TimeMeThinkFeelYouTime Passes

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

SchoolCoolCrazyYouGoTalk

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Rose Macaulay

BetterTalkingYouDelusionThings

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

Christine Gregoire

ScienceQualityBetterDecisionsUs

I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

Clemence Poesy

LifeMeMotorcycleBootsHandsYou

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Anthony Hopkins

NatureLiveHealthShadowFunThink

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

William of Occam

WithoutNecessityShouldPlurality

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Penn Jillette

LoveFaithReligionLove IsFeeling

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Paulo Coelho

DayMeYouSayUnderstandThey Say

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Scott Weiland

CultureSocietyComputersDistance

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