Jonathan Swift Quotes

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Jonathan Swift

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• Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  

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• When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

  

  Donald Miller
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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.

  

  William Reddington Hewlett
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• but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do whatever it took to provide for your family. That was important to me. You have to understand that back then, a lot of people our age wanted to change the world. Even though it's a noble idea, I knew I wanted something more traditional. I wanted a family like my parents had, and I wanted to concentrate on my little corner of the world. I wanted someone who wanted to marry a wife and a mother, and someone who would respect my choice.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
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• The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

  

  Mircea Eliade
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• Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
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• I like it when people are opinionated. I like an opinion. I like people that will fight for their opinion 'til an argument and through an argument. When they believe in something, they fight for it. I like those people that are perhaps sometimes too full of life - perhaps it's very difficult to be around them; they're not easy going. But I like being around people like that.

  

  Bradley Joseph
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• After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
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• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  

  Hugo Black
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• I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

  

  Rebecca Wells
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• I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives

  

  David Malouf
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• I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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• And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven You may have every title, every big shot degree, But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
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• If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

  

  William Cowper
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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Despise
  • Prouder