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 -
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost -
If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".
R. C. Sproul -
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Anthony Robbins -
A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.
Simone de Beauvoir -
To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.
Robin Williams