Jonathan Swift Quotes

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Equal

• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Song
  • Me
  • Wanted

• After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Weird
  • Situation
  • Choice

• I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • High
  • Road

• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Science
  • Way

• Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

  

  Alison Louise Kennedy
  • Writing
  • Remember

• However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Trying
  • Ifs
  • Seems

• No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Long
  • Character
  • inspirational

• Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

  

  G. Bruce Boyer

• Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Person
  • Gender
  • Transition

• The part that I really love is musical, but also part of it is cultural. That’s just a fact. The culture that usually surrounds me, I’ve always found it very vain, narcissistic, and immature. There’s just nothing rebellious, as far as I’m concerned, about a leather jacket.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Part
  • Musical
  • Cultural

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Stop

• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Book
  • Dying
  • Blessing

• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Giving

• Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Blessing
  • Protect
  • Power Is