Jonathan Swift Quotes

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Jonathan Swift

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• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

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• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

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• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

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• I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

  

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• Your anger is a gift.

  

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• One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I'm trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion. That's a core principle, that's not something I would violate.

  

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• I repulse death with all my strength. If I accepted it, I would be a murderer.

  

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• Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.

  

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• I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

  

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• Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.

  

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• For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

  

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• When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

  

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• When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Desire
  • Circumstances
  • Winds