Thomas Hardy Quotes

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

Thomas Hardy

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• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Dog
  • Walk

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Community
  • Courage

• I've always been a fan of science fiction.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Science
  • Always
  • Fiction

• I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Proud
  • Italian
  • Flag

• If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • She
  • Peace

• Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Copy
  • Stylish

• Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Light
  • Quality
  • Color

• I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Travel

• Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Friend

• There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Real
  • America
  • Fear

• Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Power
  • Wind

• Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Food
  • Peace
  • Relationship

• I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

  

  Ernest Vincent Wright
  • Working
  • Condition
  • Watching

• Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

  

  Charlotte Erickson
  • Writing
  • Make
  • Own

• Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Make

• Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Make
  • Paradise