Jonathan Swift Quotes

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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• We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Present

• There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • One Day
  • Stereotype
  • Misperception

• Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• The final mystery is oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mystery
  • Oneself
  • Final

• Delay is the enemy of progress.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Progress
  • Enemy
  • Delay

• Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Speak
  • Tree
  • Breathe

• The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Fly
  • Bird
  • Taught

• Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Mistake

• I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Honest
  • Consistant

• The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Adjust

• It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Free
  • Eye
  • Limb

• Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Teenager

• Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • May
  • Effort
  • Winning

• The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.

  

  Esther Rantzen
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Consciousness

• Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Done
  • Car

• Very interested in expanding the number of participants who will take part in laying the new gas pipeline in Europe.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Numbers
  • Europe
  • Gas

• When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Loses
  • Surname
  • Christian Name