Jonathan Swift Quotes

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Learn
  • Attitude
  • Questions

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Son

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Go

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• I think the future takes care of itself.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Think
  • Future
  • Care

• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Trust

• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Day
  • Cooking
  • Oil

• This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Sight
  • Far
  • Astronomy

• I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Nice
  • Grow

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • Now

• I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Care

• Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Men
  • Errors
  • Vain

• Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Smiling
  • Good Reason
  • Demeaning

• I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Believe
  • Working

• Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • High
  • Failure

• Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Persons
  • Company