Jonathan Swift Quotes

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

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• Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feels

• My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.

  

  Harry Edward Kane
  • Mask
  • Wwe
  • Chicks

• The seeing have the world in common.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Seeing
  • Common World

• Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Goal
  • Matter
  • Conscious

• Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Beauty
  • Sings
  • American Original

• I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to get a message across it was more powerful when I told a story, rather than if I used a metaphor or if I preached about an issue. And through doing that I realised that actually these stories were very visual in my head and I couldn't wait to make the videos.

  

  Ben Drew
  • Message
  • Hip Hop
  • Videos

• “In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Power
  • Priests
  • Aimed

• I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Control
  • Alone
  • My Life

• And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.

  

  David Gaider
  • Opinion
  • Persons
  • Deserve

• Whatever ember of love for goodness flickers within us, however feeble or small… that’s what the Spirit works with, until that spark glows warmer and brighter. From the tiniest beginning, our whole lives—our whole hearts, minds, souls, and strength—can be set aflame with love for God.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Hearts
  • Minds
  • Souls

• Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Life
  • Books
  • Stress

• In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

  

  Emilio G. Segre
  • Science
  • Language
  • Human Affairs

• The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Pain
  • Ego
  • Isolation

• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Devil
  • Hell

• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Pain
  • Laughter

• I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Age
  • Stories
  • Wanted

• I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Values

• Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Natures
  • Refined
  • Amiable

• I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.

  

  Bob Garfield
  • Believe
  • Masters
  • Dictionary

• An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Fixed
  • Refined
  • English Language