Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

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• Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Not Knowing

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
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• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Power
  • Man
  • Stand

• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Christianity

• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • War
  • Strong
  • Door

• 'What's wrong - what's the matter with you?' Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Taken
  • Fate

• The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Couple
  • Walk
  • Ice

• History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Challenge
  • Happiness

• Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • God
  • Humble
  • Thankful

• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Relationship

• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Find
  • Glory
  • Immortality

• Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Best

• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Red
  • New
  • Modesty

• Love so seldom means happiness.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Him

• My dear Watson," said Sherlock Holmes, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Virtues
  • Departure

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom