Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Truth
  • Practice
  • Politics

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Want
  • Black
  • See

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Years
  • Process
  • Chinese

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Up
  • God
  • Religion

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Try

• The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Beautiful
  • Advice

• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Become

• In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

  

  Lorde
  • World
  • Me
  • Perfect

• I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life.

  

  Kathryn Prescott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Funny

• Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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