Joseph Addison Quotes

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Joseph Addison

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• I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Day
  • Child
  • Doing

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.

  

  Zendaya
  • True
  • Parents
  • Strong

• 'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Once again, we've seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Paris

• When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it.No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, 'Nothing doing,' and refuse to inspect it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Truth

• Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • She
  • Ocean

• No lesbian left behind.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Lesbian

• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Why

• But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Growing

• There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture

• I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

  

  Agnes Obel
  • Music

• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Help
  • Choose
  • Things Happen

• I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Run

• And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Competition

• I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Country
  • Religious

• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  

  Joseph Addison