Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Did
  • Selective

• Now is the age of anxiety.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Age
  • Anxiety

• What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Nature
  • Jesus

• Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • She
  • Together
  • Song

• When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Done
  • Think
  • Language

• I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Grow

• Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Control

• Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize.. ..It is essentially practical and passionate.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • People

• (On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Deep

• I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Picture

• Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Why
  • Fall

• 116: You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

  

  Alan Perlis

• 'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013

  

  Edward Snowden

• Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

  

  Martin Donovan

• I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith