Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
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This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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Las certidumbres sólo se alcanzan con los pies.
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I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
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They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
