Jonathan Swift Quotes
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.Jonathan Swift
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
Karen Horney -
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
Ian Hacking -
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson -
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
Lake Bell -
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
Oliver Tambo
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
Natasha Trethewey -
I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
Wayne Rooney -
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
Queen Latifah
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
Dan Lipinski -
The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
Rand Paul -
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch -
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
Lance Reddick -
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
Tao Lin -
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
Barry Mann
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The man who, as is often said, can get away with wearing a trench coat over his dinner jacket, or an old school tie for a belt, is the one who in fact understands best the rules of proper dress and can bend them to suit his own personality and requirements.
G. Bruce Boyer -
People that complete other people's vision are understated.
Bjork -
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman -
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.
Jonathan Swift