Jonathan Swift Quotes

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Jonathan Swift

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Government
  • Socialism

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • Fun

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagine

• I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Give

• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
  • Government
  • Ideas

• Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Ready

• I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Mother
  • Afraid
  • Married

• It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Dog

• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • People
  • High

• This right which you have, is not founded any more than his upon any quality or any merit in yourself which renders you worthy of it. Your soul and your body are, of themselves, indifferent to the state of boatman or that of duke; and there is no natural bond that attaches them to one condition rather than to another.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Quality

• It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Health

• Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear

• For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • Funny
  • Light

• I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Things
  • Answer
  • Big

• Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Fear
  • Wind
  • Fate