Jonathan Swift Quotes
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen -
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
Zaha Hadid -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett -
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek -
Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
Kat Graham -
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen -
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat -
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
Ted Nugent -
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel -
A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
Damien Hirst -
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine -
You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
Garth Brooks
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I'm very proud to say I only took one course in economics in college, and it was on Saturday morning - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock. Now I don't know what your college experience was like, but I'll tell ya, on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, the last thing I wanted to do was go to economics class.
Bernard von NotHaus -
We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
Wadah Khanfar -
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.
Jodie Comer -
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift