Jonathan Swift Quotes

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

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• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Night
  • Enjoy
  • Saturday

• There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• God knows, we don't want prayer.

  

  Oliver North
  • God
  • Want
  • Prayer

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Work
  • Song
  • Write

• In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • High
  • Today

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Live
  • Money
  • Science

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Road

• The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Satan

• Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Political

• America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Good
  • War
  • Interesting

• You do the best you can.

  

  Leon Spinks

• For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • People
  • Great

• More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Music
  • Important
  • American

• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Real
  • True
  • Christian

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Live
  • Women

• I have a bad memory - thank God for that!

  

  Amrita Singh
  • God
  • Bad

• The history of a people are found in its songs.

  

  George Jellinek
  • People
  • History
  • Songs

• It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Christian
  • Folks
  • Resignation