Thomas Hardy Quotes

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

Thomas Hardy

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Love
  • Love Is

• The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Animals
  • Meat

• The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Action
  • Vision
  • Strategy

• The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • American
  • Death
  • Dance

• Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Deputy
  • Agitators

• I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.

  

  Art Spiegelman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • School

• Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • May
  • Soul

• It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

  

  Connie Willis
  • God
  • She
  • Church

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

  

  David Friedman
  • Children

• Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Business
  • Movie

• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

  

  David Alan Basche
  • Comedy

• If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

  

  Anna Held

• I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Thoughts

• It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Alone
  • Judge
  • Choose

• The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Men

• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffer

• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Friend
  • Suffer
  • Dreamer