Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Lost

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Reality
  • Rap
  • Going

• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Understanding
  • Choose
  • Cats

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Think
  • Never
  • Stability

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Man

• I'm a huge poster collector.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Huge
  • Collector
  • Poster

• Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Strong
  • Humility

• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Novel

• I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Never
  • Look
  • Watch

• There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Together
  • Go

• My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Mother
  • Change
  • Relationship

• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • True
  • Stop

• Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • She
  • Girl
  • Years

• With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Taken

• When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Nature
  • Working
  • Paint

• There is another very important lesson: You must learn to be equipped to face your battles this year and be properly positioned on the wall. Pioneers will be challenged as they plow new ground, but I have new Body Armor I want to give you that will protect you in the days to come.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Learn
  • Protect
  • Lesson

• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith