Jonathan Swift Quotes

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Jonathan Swift

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mom
  • Compass
  • Nickname

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Whatever

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Home
  • Job

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Divorces are made in Heaven.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heaven
  • Made
  • Are

• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Good
  • Black
  • Rain

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Parents

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Job
  • Rock

• The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

  

  Bob Moore
  • Pain
  • Losing
  • Tried

• But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Pain
  • Healing
  • Loneliness

• My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.

  

  Cheri Oteri
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Pain
  • Patience
  • Suffer