Thomas Hardy Quotes

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

Thomas Hardy

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• The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Live
  • Learning

• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Job
  • Know

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Men
  • Remember

• I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Tennis

• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Would
  • Been
  • Macho

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Greatness

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Country
  • Unity

• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Die

• Do your best and let God do the rest.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Rest

• There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Nature
  • Painting

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter’s mad little life was in danger.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • House
  • Night

• At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Control
  • Fate

• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Past
  • Sometimes
  • Destiny

• To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Mind
  • Fate
  • Angel

• Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Song
  • Reading
  • Audience

• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Fate
  • Loves
  • Hopeless