William Hazlitt Quotes

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

William Hazlitt

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Job
  • Fun

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Bond

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Yourself

• There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Love
  • Know

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Men
  • Future
  • Man

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Law
  • Communication
  • Effectively

• During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Humanity
  • Circumstances
  • Inheritance

• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Source

• As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Communication

• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Pride
  • Circumstances
  • Attraction