William Hazlitt Quotes

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

William Hazlitt

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• Tel Aviv appeals to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Me
  • Appeals
  • Tel Aviv

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Me
  • Books
  • Fact

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Mom
  • Woman
  • Artist

• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Mean
  • Soldier
  • Admiration

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • America
  • Proud

• I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Life
  • Want

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Appeals
  • Passive
  • Maverick

• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Money
  • Crazy

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dark
  • Driven
  • Dusk

• You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Winning
  • Goal
  • Baby

• It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fear
  • Dreams
  • Unknown

• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  

  Brad Gooch
  • Work
  • Road
  • Writer

• Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Enjoy
  • Act
  • Modeling

• We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Middle-class
  • Taxpayers
  • Choise

• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Driven
  • Admiration
  • Appeals