Thomas Hardy Quotes

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Thomas Hardy

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Long
  • Live
  • Corruption

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Industry
  • Going

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Feeling
  • You

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Darkness

• Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • First
  • Grateful
  • Veterans

• In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness, by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon observations and inferences as impersonal, and as much divested of local and temperamental bias, as is possible for human beings.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Habit

• I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • World
  • Slavery

• If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Respect

• I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

  

  Allison Winn Scotch
  • Break
  • Felt
  • Allow

• I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Respect
  • Felt
  • Present Way