Jonathan Swift Quotes

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

Jonathan Swift

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• Ceremony
• Haste

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Country
  • Action

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Business
  • Luck
  • New

• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ideas

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Presence
  • Bank
  • West

• One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Time
  • Great
  • New

• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Speak

• Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Art
  • Desire

• 'One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

  

  Andy Goldsworthy
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hope

• For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Society

• The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Period

• We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Action
  • Learning
  • Vision

• Moms, take it from me: do not buy your baby too many shoes when they're so tiny, because their feet grow every week.

  

  Ciara
  • Baby
  • Shoes

• For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Learning
  • Ceremony
  • Haste