William Hazlitt Quotes

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weather

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Women
  • Sexy

• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I get paid to go work with people I've admired since forever, and I get to learn from them? What? I would pay to go sit and be a fly on the wall!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • People
  • Work
  • Forever

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • True
  • Give

• I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Society
  • Environmental
  • Finnish

• Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Change

• I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • Different
  • Home
  • Car

• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

  

  Anais Nin

• I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

  

  David Maraniss
  • Up
  • Truth

• Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

  

  William Hazlitt
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