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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

tall gray-faced black woman in her thirties — Russell Banks

Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop. — Russell Simmons

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame. — Walter Russell Mead

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible. — Graham Russell

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things. — Bertrand Russell

NIKKI: Yep! I'm trying to help her earn a cooking badge for Scouts. Any ideas for a super-EZ brat-proof snack? BRANDON: — Rachel Renee Russell

I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter. — Russell Simmons

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. — Joel Siegel

Good givers are great getters. — Russell Simmons

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings. — David O. Russell

The Hawk's keen nose is picking up the scent of a COWARD! Right . . . about . . . HERE! he snarled, and pointed at ME! — Rachel Renee Russell

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history. — Russell D. Moore

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day. — Frederick Russell Burnham

Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution. — Russell D. Moore

Spend your energy on things that make a difference. — M. Russell Ballard

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry. — Russell Simmons

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. — Karen Russell

The kingdom of God is vast and tiny, universal and exclusive. — Russell D. Moore

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility. — Russell M. Nelson

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. — James Russell Lowell

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education. — David O. Russell

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. — George William Russell

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. — Russell Pearce

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker

Experience: Mistakes you have survived. — Russell Blake

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart. — Russell Hoban

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that. — David O. Russell

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. — Walter Russell

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it. — Russell Pearce

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things. — Russell Westbrook

Enjoy life today, for tomorrow may never come. — Michael Dean Russell Jr.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? — Laurie R. King

Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. — Bertrand Russell

For what we're about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful," Russell muttered as the first explosions echoed in the distance. — C.J. Carella

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. — Bill Russell

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. — James Russell Lowell

By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work. — Russell Eric Dobda

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't. — Russell Simmons

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. — Bertrand Russell

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility. — Paul Russell

If the price is very cheap then it's almost certainly a fake. — David Russell

Man can be scientifically manipulated. — Bertrand Russell

If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby. — Jason Russell

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry — Russell Means

If you live like it's the past and you behave like it's the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. — Russell Crowe

The bad-boy label is just an assumption. — Russell Brand

Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck. — Jeffery Russell

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. — Willy Russell

Shakespeare ... If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]. — Bertrand Russell

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe. — Walter Russell

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out. — Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. — Bertrand Russell

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty. — Russell Baker

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing ... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. — Russell Hoban

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell

Valentine's Day's not for men. — Russell Westbrook

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others — Bertrand Russell

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy. — Rosalind Russell

The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell

The unknown is too vast to live in known unhappiness. — Russell Eric Dobda

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life. — Bertrand Russell

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went. — James Russell Lowell

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. — Russell Hoban

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. — Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons — Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell

We sing songs about love because we love the people we sing our songs to! — Graham Russell

An open mind is also a humble mind because it realizes how little it actually knows. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — Bertrand Russell

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her. — Paul Russell

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. — James Russell Lowell

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. — Russell Baker

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. — Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected. — Bertrand Russell

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand. — Bill Russell

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ? — Bertrand Russell

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities. — Bertrand Russell

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. — Russell Baker

TO MY MIND, PUSHKIN BEST SUMS UP THE SEASON: Lovely summer, how I could cherish you / If heat and dust and gnats and flies were banished. — Paul Russell

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen. — Russell Simmons

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform. — Cameron Russell

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience. — Russell M. Nelson

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do. — Russell D. Moore

Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet? — Paul Russell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. — James Russell Lowell

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans! — Mark Russell

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell

I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India. — Russell Peters