Jonathan Swift Quotes

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Wish
  • Amazing

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Conduct
  • Exacting

• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trump
  • Rights
  • Silent

• Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Country

• I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Character

• They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• When I called 'Cut 4 Me' a mixtape, I was thinking about a few elements: One is used instrumentals. The project is more centered around introducing you to an artist; it's not meant to be seminal. It's 'Hi,' 'Hello,' a thing that you first hear.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Thinking

• Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Slavery
  • Depression
  • Sorrow

• Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Life
  • Music

• There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pride
  • Envy
  • Despair

• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Mountain
  • Envy
  • Generosity

• That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Envy
  • Rate
  • Natures