Jonathan Swift Quotes

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Jonathan Swift

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• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Fact
  • Brothers
  • Five

• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Five

• I've played soccer since I was five.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Soccer
  • Played
  • Five

• Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Why
  • Game
  • Hurt

• The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • May
  • Parents
  • Fear

• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Lost
  • Firsts
  • Flight

• The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

  

  John Curtin
  • Exist
  • Consistency
  • Finding

• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gods
  • Sons
  • Noblest

• At the coming of Christ the sons of God will be manifested by the restoration of the lost covering. Nor is it difficult to prove that the recovery of a visible glory will be the instant result of the restoration of spirit soul and body to perfect order and harmony, the sign of our manifestation as the sons of God. But it will then shine with far more intense brilliancy than it did in Adam: for, as we have before seen, the body of unfallen man was not a spiritual body. The spirit did indeed exercise a mighty and vigorous influence, but the soul was the ruling power, even as it continues to be: for the first man became a living soul.[177] But when the resurrection, or the change consequent upon our Lord’s return, takes place, our bodies will become spiritual:[178] the God-consciousness will be supreme in us, holding both soul and body in absolute control, and shedding forth the full power of its glory without let or hindrance.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • God
  • Christ
  • Coming

• Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

  

  Plato
  • Books
  • Sons
  • Sires

• Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Die
  • Minutes
  • Five

• Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

  

  William Penn
  • Hands
  • Ability
  • Clean

• I’m secretly hoping for the full five.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Five
  • Hoping
  • Secretly

• When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Wanted
  • Actress
  • Five

• We are five years into a master site and facility plan for our Springfield campus.

  

  Mike Peters Big Country
  • Plan
  • Master
  • Five

• It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Imitation
  • Sons
  • Sonship

• Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girl
  • Blood
  • My Father

• There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Firsts
  • Innocent
  • Bystanders

• I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Changed
  • Transformation
  • Scared

• I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Boring
  • Aspirations
  • Growing Old

• I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Music
  • Missing

• My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • My Father
  • Five
  • Sons