Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  

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• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
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• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Never
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• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
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• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Women
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• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Character
  • Down
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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
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  • Moving

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Small
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• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
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• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  

  Maimonides
  • Desire

• There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Time
  • Long
  • Food

• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
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• It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture.

  

  John Fusco
  • World
  • Character
  • Culture

• The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Men
  • Universe