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

• When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • People
  • Family
  • Minutes

• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • Democracy
  • Nations
  • Loses

• Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Search
  • Judgement

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
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