Jonathan Swift Quotes

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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• When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Singing

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Creativity

• Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Political
  • Me

• If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Will
  • China
  • Stability

• America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • America
  • Political
  • More

• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Life
  • May
  • Hope

• When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Say
  • Just

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Law

• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Church
  • Sunday

• I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Like

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Wisdom
  • Judgement
  • All Things

• When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Confidence

• Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Persistence
  • Surrender
  • Characteristics

• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Guy

• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Laws
  • Means

• Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Laws
  • Ethics
  • Religions

• The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.

  

  Adam Leipzig
  • Way
  • Creativity
  • Laws

• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Laws
  • Flies
  • Cobwebs