Jonathan Swift Quotes

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  

  Omar Sharif
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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
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• I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
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• I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

  

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• I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

  

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• To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
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• Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Science and Religion both fail to give a reasonable reply. Science does not pretend to be able to give the solution, saying that the examination of things as they are is enough of a task; religion offers an explanation both illogical and unmeaning and acceptable but to the bigot, as it requires us to consider the whole of Nature as a mystery and to seek for the meaning and purpose of life with all its sorrow in the pleasure of a God who cannot be found out. The educated and enquiring mind knows that dogmatic religion can only give an answer invented by man while it pretends to be from God.

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Science
  • Religion
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• I read good. I was an English major.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Religion
  • Miracles
  • Infant