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

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Mirror

• You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Attached
  • Shampoo
  • Conditioner

• Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Mirrors
  • Resolution

• The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • True

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Thinking
  • Flying
  • Mankind