Jonathan Swift Quotes
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.Jonathan Swift
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
Iris Apfel -
If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
Rachel Sklar -
My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
Anand Giridharadas -
American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
Wendell Willkie -
"You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."
Hermann Hesse -
My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The Bible is God's love letter to us.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
Jordan Gavaris -
I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
Mike Piazza -
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
Oswald Chambers -
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
Allan Kardec
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I remember when I was in 'Matilda,' we would have interviews in the day, and then we'd go to a show, and it's just, like, absolutely insane.
Milly Shapiro -
Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.
Eric Hutchinson -
Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.
Napoleon Hill -
Allegory is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.
Sarah Fielding -
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
Jonathan Swift