Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
-
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
-
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.
-
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
-
You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
-
Failure is a part of success.
-
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.
-
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
-
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.
-
Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
-
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.
-
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
-
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?
-
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
-
One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
-
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]
-
The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.
-
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
-
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
-
I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.
-
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
