Jonathan Swift Quotes

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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• If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Trying
  • Problem

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Smart
  • Intelligent

• More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Scary

• Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Important
  • Difference
  • Danvers

• As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Christian
  • Editors

• There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Words
  • Story

• I have never been contained except I made the prison.

  

  Mari Evans
  • Prison

• I asked my wife if she enjoys a cigarette after sex and she said "No, one drag is enough".

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • Sex

• Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Soul
  • Perfect
  • Prayer

• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Cards

• May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Rise
  • Complaint

• It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

  

  George Washington
  • Facts
  • Principles
  • Intention

• Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Age
  • Cancer
  • Terrible

• I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • School
  • Theater

• To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Tradition
  • Generations
  • Recognizing

• The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Change
  • Sense
  • Delusion

• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Powerful

• A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.

  

  Mike O'Malley
  • People
  • Winning
  • Drama

• An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

  

  Jonathan Swift
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