Jonathan Swift Quotes
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.Jonathan Swift
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
Samuel Barnett -
My goal isn't to shock.
Taylor Momsen -
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
Jackie Collins -
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler -
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters -
Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.
Nate Diaz
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
Hans Kung -
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Haley Joel Osment -
It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
Alex Wolff -
I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
Bryan Adams -
One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.
Andrew Marr -
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
Donald Heiney
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I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.
Nadya Suleman -
How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
Maggie Rowe -
Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.
Valerie Bertinelli -
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, "But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes?" The boy replied, "God told someone, but he forgot."
George Arthur Buttrick -
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift