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!

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

  

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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
  • Ugly
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• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
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• Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Experience
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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
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• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.

  

  Alex Tizon
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• Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

  

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • People
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• Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
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• I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.

  

  Becca Tobin
  • Music
  • Way
  • Genius

• 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