William Hazlitt Quotes

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

William Hazlitt

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Remember
  • Wife
  • Best

• I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Think
  • Confidence

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Control
  • Grow
  • Plants

• If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Life
  • Night

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Loved

• I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Time
  • World
  • Stop

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• The taxidermist is a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Wonder
  • Thoughts
  • Shadow

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Singing

• What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Live
  • Song
  • Singing

• I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

  

  Colin Mochrie

• All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People

• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Health
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.

  

  David Zinczenko
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • People
  • Choices
  • Married

• Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.

  

  James A. Moore
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

  

  William Hazlitt