William Hazlitt Quotes

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

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• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • High
  • Attention

• Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Religion
  • Commit
  • Muslims

• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Training
  • Inspiration
  • Jewelry

• I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • American
  • Movie
  • Best

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • World
  • Good
  • Song

• Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Earth

• In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Humanity

• With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Tired

• I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Different
  • Song
  • Singing

• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Tired
  • Grows
  • Defects