Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Young

• At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • People
  • Bad
  • Same

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Gay

• When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Leave the atom alone.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Science
  • Alone
  • Leave

• I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Women
  • Community

• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Long
  • Quality
  • Better

• Jack: I can't understand it. On your show you always win.

  

  Jack Benny

• Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Single
  • Listening

• Quo magis in dubiis hominem spectare periclisconvenit adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit;nam verae voces tum demum pectore ab imoeliciuntur et eripitur persona, manet res.

  

  Lucretius

• If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?

  

  Antonin Scalia

• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Night

• I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Player

• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Ethics

• My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Modern
  • View
  • Kant

• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Mountain
  • Shadow
  • Natural

• Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith