William Hazlitt Quotes

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

William Hazlitt

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• I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Want
  • Smoking
  • Smoke

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Two
  • Role
  • Role Models

• I've never been good at saying no.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Good

• The Joker was Batman's nemesis, but-ironically-his archenemy was Superman, since Superman made Batman entirely mortal and generally nonessential. Nobody likes to admit this, but Batman fucking hated Superman; Superman is the reason Batman became an alcoholic.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Batman
  • Superman
  • Joker

• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Past

• It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Great
  • Bored

• Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Environment

• Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Cindy (Chris Farley): That reminds me, I have a joke: I heard Michael Jackson went shopping at K-Mart because there was a sale! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!Christy (Spade): You messed it up, dumbbell! He went shopping at K-Mart because he heard little boys' pants were half off.

  

  David Spade
  • Up
  • Shopping

• Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Secret
  • Bridges
  • Houses

• You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Secret

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Amazing

• When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

  

  Cyril Tourneur
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Tragedy

• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Secret
  • Violent
  • Betrayal