William Hazlitt Quotes

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

William Hazlitt

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• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Me
  • Rock

• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Country

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Country
  • Resources

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Model

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Day

• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Country
  • Think
  • Security

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Country
  • School
  • Help

• Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.'

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Beauty

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Challenge
  • Car
  • Revolution

• There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Offense