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

• 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

• 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 had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Depression

• As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes.

  

  Brian Greene
  • May
  • Single
  • Universe

• In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Broken

• West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • People
  • Live

• One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Long
  • Business
  • Shopping

• Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.

  

  William Commanda
  • American
  • Technology
  • Spiritual

• There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Transformation

• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Written
  • Airports

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

  

  William Hazlitt