Thomas Hardy Quotes

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

Thomas Hardy

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• I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Feel
  • Realize
  • Inside

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
  • Rapper
  • Front

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Weird
  • Loved
  • Cleaning

• In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Courage

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • School
  • Study
  • Teacher

• I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • May
  • Business

• I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Different
  • Fun
  • English

• Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Fashion

• People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

  

  Li Peng
  • People
  • Light
  • Road

• I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

  

  Annie Potts
  • Nice

• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Purpose

• They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Words
  • Grief
  • Run

• "Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Science
  • Battle
  • Evolution

• Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

  

  Catherine Destivelle
  • Fear
  • Rope
  • Unthinkable

• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Past

• But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Evolution
  • Wishes
  • Fancies