William Hazlitt Quotes

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • More

• Language is fun; it's fun to try.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Language
  • Try

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Experience
  • Sun
  • Beach

• I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Remember
  • Age
  • College

• I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Moving

• I just want to tell black stories.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Black

• In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Before I came to Italy to play for Milan in 2007, I saw in the papers that my name was mentioned in connection with some English clubs.

  

  Alexandre Pato
  • English
  • Connection

• It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Good friends are often our lifelines. Mine have seen me through heartbreak, through the deaths of loved ones, and through that phase in college when I was obsessed with denim jumpsuits and matching fingerless gloves.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Good
  • Friends
  • College

• I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Space

• People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  

  Peter Drucker

• If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters.

  

  Brett Young
  • World
  • Happy

• Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Work
  • Future
  • Destiny

• A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Strong
  • Tree
  • Storm

• The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Money
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

  

  Antonin Kratochvil
  • Soul
  • Artist
  • Humans

• The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Energy
  • Crisis

• There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Punishment
  • Deeds
  • Wickedness

• We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Dissatisfied
  • Quarrels