Jonathan Swift Quotes

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • Free
  • Economy
  • Manufacturing

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Advertising

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Women
  • Money
  • She

• Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lost
  • Reflection

• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Christmas

• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Reading
  • Doubt
  • Revolution

• We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...

  

  Karl Barth
  • Great

• If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Democracy
  • Trump
  • Nasty

• I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Perception

• You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Sides
  • Fronts
  • Thrown

• Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • America
  • Inspired

• I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Money
  • Friend
  • Basketball

• I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Universe
  • Feels
  • Shadow

• The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Thinking
  • Flying
  • Mankind