Jonathan Swift Quotes
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.Jonathan Swift
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
Gagan Narang -
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
I believe in the free enterprise system.
Ralph Norman -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
Kate Christensen -
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Quentin Tarantino -
I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
Landon Donovan -
We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
Octavia Spencer -
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Kate O'Brien -
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
Sam Worthington -
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand -
This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
Patrick Modiano -
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. Forster -
'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
L. Frank Baum -
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.
Cherie Lunghi
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
William Shakespeare -
I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.
Hillary Clinton -
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Wayne Rooney -
You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start out at center, I may play small forward, if I get a rebound and you're not there I can bring the ball up.
Lisa Leslie -
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
Jonathan Swift