Jonathan Swift Quotes
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
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I was an English major in college!
Maggie Siff
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
Zach Galifianakis
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan
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I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
Randall Jarrell
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
Walker Percy
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property of B.
Ambrose Bierce
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
Irvine Welsh
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Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
Confucius
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People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.
Eric Greitens
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A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
Patrick Henry
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These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.
Bonar Law
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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
