Jonathan Swift Quotes

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• I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Children
  • Society

• Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Help
  • Crazy
  • Insanely

• Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Good
  • Women
  • Man

• Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Two
  • Islam
  • Jews

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Own
  • Before
  • Brainy

• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Good
  • School
  • Winter

• I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Listening

• The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Time
  • Simple

• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Black
  • Rap

• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • True
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

  

  Count Basie
  • Play
  • Person
  • Tune

• This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • True
  • Hate

• People don't always want to have females as leaders.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Want
  • Leader

• Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Female
  • Lexicon
  • Velvets