Joseph Addison Quotes

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Joseph Addison

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• I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Dream
  • Inspired
  • Architecture

• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Reaction

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Big

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Success

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Woman
  • Sun
  • Shoe

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Important
  • Care
  • Makeup

• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Years
  • Rich
  • Last

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.

  

  M. Ward
  • World
  • Favorite
  • Places

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

  

  Leopoldo Lopez

• After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Broken
  • Hopes
  • Tobacco

• I see myself in perfect health. I see myself in absolute prosperity. I see myself invigorated with life, appreciating, again, this physical life experience which I wanted so very much as I decided to be a physical Being. It is glorious to be here, a physical Being, making decisions with my physical brain but accessing the power of the Universe through the power of the Law of Attraction.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Perfect
  • Decision
  • Brain

• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Perfect
  • Imperfection