William Hazlitt Quotes
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Walther Bothe -
Marriage has made me safer.
Kate Winslet -
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
Sam Shepard -
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Queen Latifah -
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Barbara Bush -
He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Ovid
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
Ted Lindsay -
'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
Jack Lowden -
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
Camille Paglia -
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey -
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
Randall Munroe -
Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
Dan Quinn
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
Faye Marsay -
I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
Walter Kirn -
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
Nat Faxon -
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson -
To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.
Thomas Aquinas
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You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai -
It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
Albert Einstein -
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
William Hazlitt