Jonathan Swift Quotes
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Jonathan Swift
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
Hale Irwin
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
Irina Shayk
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Victoria Moran
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Felix Frankfurter
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
Malala Yousafzai
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
Wahb ibn Munabbih
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I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.
George Steinbrenner
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When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.
Jason Mraz
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We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or their economic situations. The Lord, however, has a different standard by which he measures a person. When it came time to choose a king to replace King Saul, the Lord gave this criteria to his prophet Samuel: "Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; ... for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."
Marvin J. Ashton
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Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.
Chris Evans
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Jonathan Swift
