William Hazlitt Quotes
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?William Hazlitt
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
Laurance Rockefeller -
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson -
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
Caitlin Moran -
California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
Walter Cronkite -
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
Sabrina Carpenter -
With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
Zack Wamp -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
Action Bronson -
There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
Dalai Lama -
Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
Carl Levin -
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
Barry Eisler -
People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
Gary Peters -
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
My life has been a series of emergencies.
Lana Turner
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Bush -
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.
Humphrey Bogart -
All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
Cameron Crowe -
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer -
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
William Hazlitt