Thomas Hardy Quotes

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

Thomas Hardy

• Universe
• Emotion
• Ecstasy
• Spin

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• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • True
  • Opinions
  • Worth

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• I am always relaxed.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Relaxed

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Problem
  • Marriage
  • Feelings

• I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Writing
  • Future

• Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Business
  • War

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Die

• After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; 'They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Silence

• I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade

• Today we are announcing the selection of Lockheed Martin, ... This effort will deliver a new helicopter that provides essential improvement in the range, speed, communications capability and survivability necessary to efficiently and securely transport the president of the United States.

  

  John Young
  • Effort
  • Essential
  • Deliver

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wife
  • Suffering
  • Stupidity

• I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Comedy

• It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Universe
  • Emotion
  • Ecstasy