William Hazlitt Quotes

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • House
  • Morning

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Intellectual

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women's game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mind

• We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Achieve
  • Order
  • Momentum

• Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Long
  • Society
  • Peace