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by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.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

• 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 wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Christian
  • Fiction

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Two
  • Tattoo
  • Mask

• We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Hearts

• I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

  

  Nicola Sturgeon
  • World
  • Mean
  • Independent

• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Weird
  • Position
  • Weight

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
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