Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Country
  • House
  • Everything

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Medical

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Live
  • Advice
  • How

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Play

• I've only felt content a few times in my life, and it never lasted. I'm very discontented right now. There are situations in my life that didn't pan out. I'm like most other human beings. I try and I fail.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Content

• The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Up
  • Present

• If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life.

  

  Fredric Jameson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Future

• We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Present
  • Should
  • Philosophy