Jonathan Swift Quotes

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Know

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dark

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Without

• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Family
  • Love
  • History

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • History
  • Control

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Help
  • Song

• The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh,And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, With breathless pause between,O who, with speech of war and woes,Would wish to break the soft repose Of such enchanting scene!

  

  Walter Scott
  • War
  • Die
  • Wish

• We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Words
  • Die

• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Mother
  • Say
  • Angels

• Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Fool

• I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Die
  • Tree
  • Top