William Hazlitt Quotes

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt

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• You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • You
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Home
  • Job
  • Earth

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • American
  • House
  • Space

• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Law

• I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Live
  • Job

• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• White America is in the minority.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • White
  • Minority

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Family
  • May

• I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Hope
  • Integrity

• I have changed my mind about the testability and logical status of the theory of natural selection; and I am glad to have an opportunity to make a recantation.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Mind
  • Opportunity

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

  

  James Russell Lowell

• The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Women
  • Management
  • Forward

• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • May

• He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Fool

• They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Wells
  • Creatures

• I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Fool
  • Wells
  • Knaves