William Hazlitt Quotes

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

William Hazlitt

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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Natural
  • Rights
  • Recycling

• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Rights
  • Bill Of Rights

• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Seeing

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Transformation
  • Calmness
  • Kate Winslet

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Seen

• If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • You
  • Fight
  • Rights

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Myself
  • I Can
  • Seeing

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Seeing

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Dance

• By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • Science
  • Connections
  • Organism

• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • History
  • Science
  • Reality

• Equipping is more about quality than quantity. It’s much better to work with a few who really get it than a bunch who only get it halfway.

  

  Scott Wilson
  • Work
  • Get
  • Quantity

• Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Rights
  • Seeing
  • Reform