Jonathan Swift Quotes

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Jonathan Swift

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• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Struggle

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Painting

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Second Chance

• I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Ego
  • Relationships

• I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Old

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Play
  • Try

• In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Art

• I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • World
  • She
  • Remember

• In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Relationship
  • Humanity

• When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Time
  • Late
  • Philadelphia

• 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
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Lays
  • Sleepy
  • Misinterpretation

• If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

  

  Diana Ross
  • Music
  • Together
  • Dream

• And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Power
  • Together

• A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Audience
  • Own
  • Hopes

• I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Community

• The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Wish
  • Chocolate
  • Story Of My Life

• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

  

  William Robertson Smith
  • Men
  • Religion
  • Born

• Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Religion
  • Prejudice
  • Notion