Jonathan Swift Quotes

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Jonathan Swift

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• I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Time
  • Career
  • Same

• I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.

  

  Joel Rosenberg
  • Music
  • She
  • Quality

• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Magic

• It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Woman

• Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Rhyme

• They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Words
  • Grief
  • Run

• All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

  

  Socrates
  • Divine
  • Souls
  • Immortal

• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

  

  Epictetus
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Say

• The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Culture
  • Field
  • Mockery

• The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

  

  William James
  • Psychological

• And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Looks
  • Accidents

• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Advantages
  • Affectionate

• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Memories
  • Reflected

• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Accidents
  • Advantages
  • DIsoder