John Stuart Mill Quotes

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

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• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • Smart
  • Lawyer

• At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Write
  • Dialogue

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• 'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Real
  • Impact
  • Squad

• There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Politics

• It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Important
  • Career

• I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Week

• If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Successful
  • Uncomfortable
  • Frustrated

• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Day
  • Cooking
  • Oil

• The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Period

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Money
  • Book
  • Today

• As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

  

  Brad Warner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Enlightenment

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

  

  Bob Brookmeyer
  • Play
  • Album
  • Thesis

• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Walking
  • Shoes

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Bored
  • Sight

• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  

  John Stuart Mill