Jonathan Swift Quotes

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Like
  • Sun

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Things forbidden have a secret charm.

  

  Tacitus
  • Secret
  • Charm
  • Forbidden

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Happen
  • WIld

• I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Society

• Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • America

• The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Wall

• I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Truth
  • Cover
  • Complicate

• I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

  

  Kris Carr
  • Life
  • Cancer

• Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

  

  Alistair Maclean
  • Fashion
  • Place
  • Search

• It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Truth
  • Understood
  • Talents