John Gay Quotes

Is there no hope? the sick man said;The silent doctor shook his head.

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Action

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Voice

• The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.

  

  David Hume
  • Power

• You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Pretty

• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  

  Plutarch
  • Believe
  • Traveller
  • Goose

• I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• Is there no hope? the sick man said;The silent doctor shook his head.

  

  John Gay
  • Hope
  • Sick