William Hazlitt Quotes

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

William Hazlitt

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Moving

• Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Will

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

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

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • More

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Power
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Happy

• 'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Philanthropy

• People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Break

• I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

  

  William Hurlbut
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Giving

• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Language
  • Atmosphere