Jonathan Swift Quotes

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Now

• People like to see showdowns.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Like
  • See

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Career
  • House
  • Value

• It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People
  • Alone
  • Morning

• Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.

  

  Om Malik
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Listening

• I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Blessed

• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

  Ellen G. White

• A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

  

  Dean Alford
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Minutes

• Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Men

• Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

  

  Dee Brown
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Knowing

• I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Moving

• We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Thinking
  • Discovered
  • Scholars