Thomas Hardy Quotes

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
  • San Francisco

• On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • Maintenance

• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Best
  • Always

• I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Learn
  • Forget

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Today

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Past
  • Question
  • Present

• I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life

• I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange, and I was always like, 'Look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothing to see here!'

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Hate
  • Baby
  • Ignore

• 'In God We Trust.' It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true - half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Believe
  • True

• There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

  

  William Landay
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Attractive

• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • May
  • True

• Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Men
  • Fate
  • Villain