William Hazlitt Quotes

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

William Hazlitt

• Imagination
• Realizing
• Perfection

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• I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Question
  • Goals

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Me
  • Politics

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

  

  Ted Olson
  • Way
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Born

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Own

• I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Online

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Money
  • You
  • United States

• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• I love my work. It's been good to me.

  

  Carl Kasell
  • Good
  • Work

• I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Want
  • Imagination

• Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

  

  John Flavel

• When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.

  

  William Whewell
  • Real
  • Progress
  • Firm

• Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Imagination
  • Realizing
  • Perfection