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
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• 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
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

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

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• 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
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• 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
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Find

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

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

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

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Craft

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

  

  Gary Numan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Kind

• 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
  • World
  • Experience
  • Dream

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• 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
  • Life
  • Independent
  • For Her

• 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
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fashion

• 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
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

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

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

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

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Person
  • Romantic
  • More

• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Family
  • Death
  • Religion

• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Children
  • Gentleman
  • Massive

• 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