Jonathan Swift Quotes

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Jonathan Swift

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• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
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  • Spend

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
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• I believe in the free enterprise system.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Believe
  • Free
  • I Believe

• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
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• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • She
  • Everyday

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
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• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• All children are manipulators.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Fashion
  • Riches
  • Ostentation

• On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

  

  Eddie Lacy
  • Individual
  • Achievement
  • Levels

• The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

  

  Kygo
  • Good

• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Truth
  • Lovers
  • Errors