Thomas Hardy Quotes

Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

Thomas Hardy

• Doubt
• Affection
• Breath
• Spells
• Photosphere

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• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Culture
  • Like

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Travel

• I mostly want to be friends with my children.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Want

• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Sure

• Many support what I am doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Support

• Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Control
  • Life Is A

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• This strategy aims directly at a reannexation of the Southwest, not militarily, but ethnically, linguistically and culturally through transfer of millions of Mexicans into the United States and a migration of 'Anglos' out of the lands Mexico lost in 1848. In California, the project is well advanced.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Lost
  • California

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• Hell is gone and heaven's here,there’s nothing left for you to fear.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Fear
  • Heaven

• Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Country
  • Guy

• Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • May
  • Fisherman

• I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • People

• Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Hair

• We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Life
  • Love
  • Way

• Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Doubt
  • Affection
  • Breath