Jonathan Swift Quotes

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

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• Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Single
  • Brain
  • Financial

• I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Fate

• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Success
  • Proud

• The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.

  

  George Clooney
  • Enjoy
  • Ends
  • Distraction

• How do I work? I grope.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Grope

• Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sense
  • Tragic
  • Sensuality

• Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Flame

• I hate to see the evening sun go down.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Hate
  • Sun
  • Evening

• Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • World
  • Needs

• I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man’s inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Victory
  • Excellence
  • Rebellion

• Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fails
  • Succeeds
  • Rashness

• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fails

• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • God
  • Courage
  • Patience

• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The girl I’ve been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fly

• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Fails
  • Nails
  • Scratch