Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai -
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Zac Brown Band
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Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron -
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
Cameron Crowe -
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
Hal Hartley -
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
Barack Obama -
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
Ohtaka Shinobu -
It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
Mark Steyn -
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow -
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher -
One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
John McCormack -
There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
Heraclitus -
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Lao Tzu
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I'm feminine: I'm wearing a skirt, I own a bra. I think that whole big blonde look has been taken over by transsexuals now. I'm a natural blonde, but that blonde hair, big tits idea of what men want, it's now really unfeminine.
Alice Glass -
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Oscar Wilde -
I watch a lot of television and I watch a lot of film and I hate when you watch the action sequences - and I always tell when they use a stunt man - and then they put the actor in and you can tell these actors haven't done anything.
Raymond Cruz -
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Jonathan Swift