Joseph Addison Quotes

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Morning

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Feeling
  • Opinion
  • Stand

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• There is no suspense in inevitability.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Suspense
  • Inevitability

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Democracy
  • View
  • Bed

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

  

  Antonia Fraser

• I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Good
  • Things
  • Happen

• Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Circumstances

• We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Iceland

• I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.

  

  Zac Rinaldo
  • Hockey
  • Tonight

• Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Great
  • Men
  • Learning