Jonathan Swift Quotes

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

Jonathan Swift

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• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • School
  • Education
  • Better

• President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Right
  • Security
  • Decisions

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Home
  • House
  • Lucky

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Love
  • Care
  • Child

• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Eating

• If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Me
  • Change
  • Stronger

• If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to communicate for businesses to connect and have conversations in a real-time immersive mode, how that will change health care, how that'll change retail business, how that'll change actually travel. There's lots of changes that we will see going forward.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Lead

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Time
  • Age
  • Past

• There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Roles
  • Can Do
  • Many Things

• Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Dreams
  • Silent
  • Vain